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...
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BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021
“We saw strong growth before the pandemic, we saw strong growth during the pandemic and now...
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Sweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
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Sweden’s BookBeat sees 69% revenue boost. On target to reach $57 million by end 2020 with 400,000 subscribers
“Five years ago, we still had not launched our beta app and now, just a short distance into the...
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Findaway adds Bookmate, Bookbeat, Axiell, AudiobooksNow and Bokus Play to its distribution portfolio
Findaway was already the biggest player in the audiobooks aggregator arena in September, but this...
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Storytel’s subscription royalties rose 6.4% in Q2. But is $0.20 per hour enough to keep publishers happy? Does the subscription model have a future?
At the start of this year Storytel changed its remuneration model for publishers, from a fixed...
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Bookbeat beats forecast, topping 200,000 subscribers. Revenues up 126%. And a promising start in the Netherlands
With its recent 24-country expansion still too new to have had any impact on the numbers, Bookbeat...
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In the audiobook market stakes, Bookbeat takes a surprise lead, adding 24 markets. Total 28. But this isn’t a gamechanger yet
With just 50,000 titles Bonnier’s Bookbeat is no match for Audible or Storytel in volume terms,...
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With the “attention economy” the latest buzzword excuse for perceived falling book sales, how is it Scandinavia is seeing both video and book streaming rise simultaneously?
The rise and rise of audiobook and ebook subscription streaming across the Scandinavian countries...
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Audiobook revenue doubled in Finland in 2018
While the end of year results are not yet known, audiobook revenues doubled in Finland up until...
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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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As Storytel Q3 results show 730,000 subscribers, with streaming revenue up 43% Y/Y, fourth place rival Bokus Play plays the discount game to stay relevant
It was never going to be easy for new kid on the Scandinavian audiobook block, Bokus Play....
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