France: Digital up amid overall decline for 2022 publishing, but whole market still ahead of 2019
“Considered perhaps a little quickly as dead and buried, the digital market of French...
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Storytel launches in France with tiered access and a headline that mentions neither
No unlimited subscription on offer here, but that’s a reflection of French publishing rather...
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“Nextory ex Youboox” – Nextory rebrands its French acquisition, but what does this mean for the global audiobook industry?
One significant difference between Nextory France and the other Nextory and Storytel markets is...
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Paris Book Fair gets new name. Gets new look. Gets rid of Reed Expo and the “tyranny of the square metre”
“We are no longer working on the model of Reed Expo: here, we offer the Champ de Mars and...
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Nextory-owned Youboox launches Switch, a “new” format that combines ebook and audiobook. Let’s call it an audio ebook
Given Youboox was acquired by Sweden-based Nextory in October it seems a safe bet we will see this...
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in 8th market France, days after Australia, New Zealand and Italy
The France launch comes a week after the launch in KoboPlus in Italy, and with it Kobo’s...
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With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow
The big story here is not catalogue size but rather the seismic shift in Nextory’s expansion...
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Kubini – Swahili for “imaginary creations” – will be a 9-month-long African comics exhibition in d’Angoulême, France, in 2021
The French connection here should surprise no-one familiar with the book market in France, where...
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In France a “Pyrrhic victory” as supermarkets barred from selling books – to be fair to bookstores
“We wanted equal treatment, not a race to the bottom. It sounds like a Pyrrhic victory for the...
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As a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services
Lire, c’est vivre – reading is living – should not become reading carries a strong risk of dying...
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In France in 2019 digital accounted for just 8.7% of the book market
There’s no disputing that, with internet penetration at 92%, amounting to 60 million people...
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Mapping the new normal: As bookstores in France re-open, early euphoria gives way to plummeting book sales in week two
After a long and painful lockdown it was hardly surprising that many booklovers made a beeline for...
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