KKR’s barely noticed RBMedia-BookBeat deal has broader meaning for the global audiobook markets
“A level playing field for Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar and BookBeat CEO Niclas Sandin to club one...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 10, 2022 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Uncategorized | 0 |
“A level playing field for Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar and BookBeat CEO Niclas Sandin to club one...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 8, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |
“We saw strong growth before the pandemic, we saw strong growth during the pandemic and now...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 25, 2020 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 9, 2020 | Audiobooks, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |
“Five years ago, we still had not launched our beta app and now, just a short distance into the...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Oct 31, 2019 | Aggregators, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, The global book market | 2 |
Findaway was already the biggest player in the audiobooks aggregator arena in September, but this...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 20, 2019 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |
At the start of this year Storytel changed its remuneration model for publishers, from a fixed...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 2, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 |
With its recent 24-country expansion still too new to have had any impact on the numbers, Bookbeat...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jun 20, 2019 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |
With just 50,000 titles Bonnier’s Bookbeat is no match for Audible or Storytel in volume terms,...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | May 29, 2019 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Europe, Finland, Norway, Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies, Smartphones & Tablets, Storytel, Sweden | 1 |
The rise and rise of audiobook and ebook subscription streaming across the Scandinavian countries...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 11, 2019 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Finland, Global Publishing, Scandinavia, The global book market | 0 |
While the end of year results are not yet known, audiobook revenues doubled in Finland up until...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 3, 2019 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Finland, Germany, Global Publishing, Scandinavia, Sweden | 0 |
Swedish streaming service Bookbeat may have put the UK on hold, but it’s still battling for market...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 15, 2018 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |
It was never going to be easy for new kid on the Scandinavian audiobook block, Bokus Play....
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