Digital books and unlimited subscription up, print down in Sweden – publishers elsewhere will want to look away
The growth of subscription services is slowing down – at least in percentage terms, as the...
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Amazon Sweden to launch in November?
All the indications are Amazon Sweden will launch next month, and print books will be part of it....
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Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair pulls in 373,000 virtual visitors in prime time and still has 3 months of viewing to come – the digital book fair is here to stay
“We see that the virtual book fair can create added value for both authors, publishers and other...
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While PRH sits on its subscription plans, another Nordic publisher launches its own subscription service
Last month we reported here on a Boktugg news item suggesting the world’s biggest trade...
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Penguin Random House pulls English-language titles from Storytel, Bookbeat and Nextory
A few days ago it emerged PRH titles were disappearing from the Storytel, Nextory and Bookbeat...
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Swedish book exports valued at $36 million in 2018, led by fiction, but we don’t know if this is up or down on 2017
A press release from the Swedish Publishers Association this week reports that for the first time...
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Boktugg’s essential list of 2019 Scandinavian book fairs
Regulars here at TNPS will know the value we attach to the global book fair scene, and that...
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Sweden's Bookbeat grew 163% to 150,000 in 2018. Targets 250,000 subscribers by end 2019
Swedish streaming service Bookbeat may have put the UK on hold, but it’s still battling for market...
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Bonnier’s Bookbeat clocks 100,000 subscribers as growth continues, but UK publishers still aren’t interested
A month ahead of schedule, Bookbeat, the audiobook and ebook subscription arm of the Swedish...
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