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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Tag: digital streaming
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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“Not too little, but also not too much.” Paramount Global finetunes its subscription service. Lessons for publishers
Many echoes here of recent discussions and workshops from Nathan Hull of Beat...
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1 billion paid subscriptions at Apple
Subscription books remains a no-go area for most book platforms due to publisher resistance as...
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Spotify had 44.4m US subscribers in February, Apple 32.6m, Amazon 23.9m. Lessons for book publishers
Keeping books out of subscription services so the consumer has limited value for money and then...
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Storytel Norway stands accused of favouring own content as Amazon rakes in cash from the books and music of its Prime Video success
Whosoever owns the platform owns the algorithms and can pretty much dictate what succeeds by...
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Paid Music Streaming Adds Half a Billion Users in a Decade
Streaming accounted for 67 percent of global recorded music revenues last year, as the number of...
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