Romania – digital book market to reach $11 million / 10% market share by 2025
Audiobook & e-book streaming platform Voxa, launched in late 2021, clocked 160,000 subscribers...
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Amazon’s unlimited ebook subscription service paid out $450 million to self-published authors in 2021 as AAP reports US ebook market worth $1.1 billion. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about? (redux)
We need to seriously entertain the possibility that the so-called fall in ebook sales that...
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Quote unquote: “The book market, to stay relevant, needs to embrace the unlimited subscription model” – Jonas Tellander, CEO Storytel
Tellander speaks with the confidence of someone who knows he holds the trump cards for the global...
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Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out over a quarter billion dollars in royalties to KDP authors for second year running
It’s been a good year for print and a great year for audiobooks. Ebooks, not so much. Or so we...
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Bookmate partners with telcos in Bulgaria and Serbia. Introduces Bookmate Plus in Azerbaijan
Despite headquarters in London, Bookmate is probably best known as a Russian ebook subscription...
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The latest $58 million investment in Scribd is a vote of confidence in the global subscription model, not just the company
Back in 2015, when first Entitle then Oyster closed in quick succession, it looked to many like...
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Could HarperCollins UK’s experiment with Kindle Unlimited pave the way to a Storytel UK launch in the new decade?
With an unspecified number of “hundreds” of backlist titles being put into Amazon’s Kindle...
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VIMN launches Nickelodeon ebook subscription service BooKids in France
Launching with 200 titles, and aiming to add ten new titles each month, BooKids by Nickleodeon is...
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French ebook store Numilog rolls out pay-per-page reading for consumers. Will it be vulnerable to the problems that Kindle Unlimited faces?
The French ebook and audio store Numilog has been focused primarily, although not exclusively, on...
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'Jessica Jones,' 'Punisher' Canceled. Netflix led the streaming surge and now pays the price as suppliers copy the Netflix model and content is siloed
“Jessica Jones, Punisher Canceled as Netflix Completes Marvel Purge” runs the headline in The...
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Thalia invests in Skoobe as Storytel booms. Amazon’s KU a magnet for scammers
As I write this, HarperCollins’ CEO Charlie Redmayne is due to make a keynote speech at Frankfurt...
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Skoobe gets a new CEO, but unclear yet what direction the German ebook subscription service will go
Little known in the Anglophone publishing world, the Munich-based ebook subscription service...
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