How They Laughed When Spotify Entered Audiobooks. Not Any More
How Spotify Audiobooks transformed from industry laughing stock to award-winning innovator, expanding to 14 markets and proving publishers wrong.
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Spotify pays podcasters $100 million in Q1. Publishers and other creatives, wake up and smell the coffee!
This news carries significant implications for the audiobook publishing landscape, particularly given Spotify’s own disruptive entry into this market.
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Spotify’s Transition from Publishing Industry Joke to Industry Innovator Award: A Tsunami in the Making
The parallels with AI could not be more compelling.
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Spotify for (Some) Authors – the Spotify Seismic Shift Continues
Why, the publisher might ask, would a mere author want that kind of valuable info? This is the thin end of the wedge. The slippery slope. What next, letting authors see the actual sales records for their books?
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Spotify adds Bloomsbury, forces Amazon to add audiobooks to Amazon Music
The kingmaker will be the big publishers, but it will be consumers that that will be the kingmakers’ kingmaker – TNPS 2020.
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Bonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing (US) add audiobook catalogues to Spotify
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
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Is Spotify’s audiobook service already hurting Audible?
How many Audible subscribers, handing over a fixed sum each month for one single audiobook, also subscribe to Spotify for their music fix?
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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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Spotify hits 158 million subscribers in Q1. MAU’s reach 356 million. Publishers continue to struggle with the idea consumers want subscription
Just how many music, film and other subscription services are authors and publishers using daily...
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Spotify rolls out across 80+ NEW countries as publishers continue to shun global subscription
This expansion will help ensure that sounds and stories that once remained local can reach a...
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