Audible’s Video Gambit: Boon for Discovery or Barrier for Indie Presses?
Audible’s in-app video beta favours major publishers. We examine the martech move’s pros, cons and implications for indie presses.
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Category: Digital Audio
Storytel and Onet Premium launch bundled subscription in Poland
Storytel and Onet Premium launch bundled subscription in Poland, combining audiobooks with premium journalism in a strategic partnership targeting modern content consumers.
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The Great Reversal: How India’s AI Leap Will Transform Global Publishing
India’s mandatory AI licensing proposal and voice AI leadership signal a reversal where emerging markets set standards the West must follow.
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The Audible Harry Potter Spectacular: A Landmark Achievement That Defies Replication
Amazon’s lavish Harry Potter audio production showcases audio’s potential but reveals why such scale remains impossible for most publishers to replicate.
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Estonia Launch Imminent. Storytel is Back in the Global Subscription Game!
Now it’s back. Estonia next month and 6-8 further new markets in the next few years.
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Can We Please Stop Pretending Listening To Audiobooks Is Reading?
Why listening to audiobooks isn’t reading: exploring the cognitive differences between auditory and visual text processing in literacy development.
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Iceland’s Storytel Dispute: A Clash of Values
“Literature and art are created exclusively by artists and not machines,” says the IWA, seemingly completely ignorant of the history of global literature, where technology has augmented – not replaced – human creativity.
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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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Perlego’s new Read Aloud feature, in beta, offers learners meaningful audio-access to textbooks
Apparently, more than one third of Perlego users prefer audio, so this could be hugely popular if it delivers as well as they suggest.
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Legacy TV Consumption Falls. Streaming TV Rises. Lessons For Book Publishers From Streaming’s Success
Put simply, publishing needs to move with the times. And of course it will, eventually. The history of publishing is the history of active resistance, passive acceptance and eventual embrace.
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BookBeat has paid out $327 million (SEK 3.5 billion) to publishers and authors since it launched in 2015
How much did PRH authors lose out on when Dohle pulled all PRH titles from streaming platforms?
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