Spotify’s iOS Payment Reforms Drive Subscription Surge and Audiobook Sales. Don’t tell Markus Dohle and the SoA!
For publishers, the lesson is clear: consumer choice in payment systems isn’t just fair – it’s profitable.
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Legacy TV Consumption Falls. Streaming TV Rises. Lessons For Book Publishers From Streaming’s Success
Put simply, publishing needs to move with the times. And of course it will, eventually. The history of publishing is the history of active resistance, passive acceptance and eventual embrace.
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BookBeat has paid out $327 million (SEK 3.5 billion) to publishers and authors since it launched in 2015
How much did PRH authors lose out on when Dohle pulled all PRH titles from streaming platforms?
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BookBeat reported 21% growth in 2024, reaching $125 million revenue, and topped one million paying users
So pity the PRH authors who missed out on a share of BookBeat’s accumulative royalty payout of SEK 3.5 billion ($320 million) to participating publishers and authors.
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Paramount Posts $49M Streaming Profit Amid Subscriber Growth. Publishers using AI to develop content need to think subscription
With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
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Authors demand Spotify tell them the deal details their publishers are keeping quiet about
What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
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Netflix rivals take a $5 billion hit, but video streaming remains strong amid the chaos
Consumers want more content choice, not more platform choice. Among the big digital streaming...
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Turkey’s Competition Authority concludes investigation into Storytel Turkey activities
Storytel TR was given the option to propose and implement revised practices while the...
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Nextory’s continuing shift from growth to profitability
The combined internet user base of the four Nordic countries amounts to 16.2 million. The combined...
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US Music market share by volume, by genre. Lessons for book publishers
So what happened between 2015-2016 that recalibrated the US music industry and convinced American...
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TV streaming reminds us of the power of the backlist. Yet publishers still look the other way
Because alongside reach and discoverability, data is the big benefit of digital subscription, and...
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Unlimited subscription platform Kobo Plus adds audiobooks in Australia and New Zealand
“Nothing excites a booklover as much as saying ‘read as much as you want’...
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