Category: Germany
OverDrive Acquires divibib: A New Chapter for DACH Digital Lending
OverDrive acquires divibib and its Onleihe platform from ekz-Group, uniting the two largest digital library aggregators in the German-speaking DACH region under Libby.
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Tolino Media Expands into Audiobooks for Self-Publishers
Tolino media launches audiobook distribution for self-publishers, tapping Germany’s 25% CAGR audio market. 70% royalty, zero fees, 10-platform reach including Spotify and Apple Books.
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Kazakhstan’s Publishing Ambitions: A Strategic Path to Frankfurt’s Guest of Honour Stage
Frankfurt Book Fair Director Juergen Boos discusses Kazakhstan’s rising publishing profile and potential Guest of Honor status in exclusive interview with Times of Central Asia.
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USA’s Insight Partners Consolidates German Publishing Tech With Bookwire and Zebralution Deals.
Insight Partners acquires Bookwire and Zebralution, uniting German ebook, audiobook and podcast distribution under one US private-equity roof.
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Germany – Bastei Lübbe Acquires Papertoons in Webtoon Land Grab
Bastei Lübbe AG acquires German webtoon publisher Papertoons to capture 29% CAGR growth in digital comics market. Deal effective Jan 2026.
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Germany – Records Broken at Leipzig Book Fair and lit.COLOGNE. More Visitors Than Frankfurt
Publishing invented the phrase “the sky is falling!”
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Is the Buchmesse feeling the heat from other book fairs?
Both events were, from conception, fatally flawed – book fairs run for profit by outsiders, for an industry the organisers never fully understood or cared about.
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Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone unveils exclusive packages for publishers as SIBF comes of age
No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
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BookRix and StreetLib join forces to drive innovation in the book publishing industry
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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Buchmesse ’23 promises to be the best yet. Sharjah looms. The US and UK need to up their game to stay relevant
Sharjah is unlike anything publishing has ever witnessed before. A city-state that emerged from...
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Germany’s Thalia buys into Austria’s self-pub start-up Storylution. “A new age of book creation”?
The comparison with the music industry is bewildering. The 2020s music industry is not driven by...
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Frankfurt pulls in only 60% of its pre-Covid traffic as economic realities of the New Normal hit home
No question in-person trade events have a future, and will continue to be important for the...
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