Category: Digital subscription
Everand’s State of Reading Report 2025 Is A Little Self-Serving But Still Insightful. But Avoid The Images!
If the intention was to give AI imagery a bad name, you nailed it.
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Paramount Posts $49M Streaming Profit Amid Subscriber Growth. Publishers using AI to develop content need to think subscription
With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
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Podimo Acquires Danish Advertising Agency Podads
This hybrid approach, combining subscription and ad-supported models, is expected to provide...
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2024 on target to clock $1.2 billion in invisible ebook revenues as AAP reports decline
The total sum paid out to self-publishers and small presses so far this year is $205.8 million, putting ebook unlimited subscription service Kindle Unlimited on target to pay out $620m in royalties in 2024.
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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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Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There’s room for all!
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa
Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
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Seismic shift: Spotify bumps Apple. Rattles Audible. But no, Spotify audiobooks are not free
There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
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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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23 million subscribed to ad-supported Netflix. Book-streaming platforms should explore the option
Would a 30 second ad inserted every five or ten chapters really be more disruptive than a knock at...
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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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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