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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Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape, but the ripples will take time to be felt
Can Spotify dominate the audiobook scene in the same way it has music? No is the simple answer....
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The future of 24Symbols in question as parent company BestSharer goes into administration
This is a breaking news story that we’ll try update as details come in, but TNPS has learned...
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Storytel hits 1.1 million subscriber target, sees Q4 revenue rise 45%. Annual subscriber growth up 40% overall. Non-Nordic subscribers up 114%
As Storytel notches up yet another bag of exceeded targets, revenue increases and year on year...
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Storytel – the TNPS Story of the Year 2019
There were three candidates for TNPS Story of the Year this year, and little to choose between...
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Peace in our time. Storytel and Bonnier sign three-year armistice. Consumers and authors are the winners, says Tellander
The problem with the subscription model is, for publishers, remuneration rates. In an...
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Storytel’s subscription royalties rose 6.4% in Q2. But is $0.20 per hour enough to keep publishers happy? Does the subscription model have a future?
At the start of this year Storytel changed its remuneration model for publishers, from a fixed...
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StreetLib enters the global audiobook market. Partners with Il Narratore for production, and with Audible, Google Play, Storytel and others for distribution
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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With the “attention economy” the latest buzzword excuse for perceived falling book sales, how is it Scandinavia is seeing both video and book streaming rise simultaneously?
The rise and rise of audiobook and ebook subscription streaming across the Scandinavian countries...
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Sweden’s subscription model faces its biggest challenge yet as Bonnier and Storytel go to war
It was a confrontation waiting to happen, and perhaps the real surprise here is that it hasn’t...
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Storytel launches in Singapore. Adds 65,000 subscribers in Q1, bringing in $32m from streaming services. Targets 39% annual growth
There were no big surprises from Storytel for Q1 2019, with the final numbers missing forecasts by...
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Discount ebook deals mailing list BookBub finally adds audiobooks. Launches Chirp in partnership with Findaway
One of the biggest gripes about Amazon’s ACX, the self-publishing arm of Audible and very much the...
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