Print down, digital up at Bonnier. “We have never paid out as much in royalties to our authors as now”
Bonnier “sold 20 million copies in various formats, which was a decrease of 7%, with...
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Tag: Sweden book market
One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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Digital books and unlimited subscription up, print down in Sweden – publishers elsewhere will want to look away
The growth of subscription services is slowing down – at least in percentage terms, as the...
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Amazon Prime launches in Sweden but books are still not on the agenda, almost 7 years after the last Kindle store
We shouldn’t be surprised. Sweden is the digital books capital of the world, on a per capita...
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Sesamy, Sweden’s antidote to subscription, pulls in $5 million for European expansion to fix a problem that doesn’t exist elsewhere
…Outside the Nordics digital books subscription is at best a sideshow right now, and mostly...
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2020 was BookBeat’s “most successful year”. Revenue up 63%. Subscribers up 65%
The non-mention of BookBeat UK tells its own story. The UK and US are of course the mainstay of...
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Colombia’s hybrid Bogotá International Book Fair will have Sweden as Guest of Honour
Sweden will be the Filbo Guest of Honour and is preparing a “robust digital program”. Filbo, as...
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Sweden’s BookBeat launches ebook app as it sees 75% increase in ebook reading in 2020. Storytel Turkey adds ebooks in Turkish
Both listening and reading are increasing rapidly in all markets where Bookbeat is active, and in...
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Sweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
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Sweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH
To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...
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Subscription audio will be more than half of Sweden’s book market by year’s end – Storytel’s Jonas Tellander
Sweden’s book market is now some 60% digital, and it’s only the anticipated Christmas...
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