Norwegian Book Market Rebounds: 2025 Sales Hit Highest Level in Four Years
Norwegian book sales rose 8% in 2025 to 7.9m copies, driven by non-fiction, crime and children’s titles. Analysis for publishing professionals.
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Category: Scandinavia
Jo Nesbø: The Enigmatic Master of Nordic Noir
“I am not a public figure. I write to communicate – not for self-promotion. Writers have the privilege of anonymity. I once sat next to a man on a plane engrossed in one of my books – he had absolutely no idea who I was.”
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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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BookBeat hits SEK 1 billion milestone (accumulated) and best quarter ever. But did abandoning unlimited subscription help or hinder?
But what we don’t know is how much BookBeat has left on the table by removing completely the...
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Recommended reading: Norway – Digital subscription and short children’s books
TNPS readers say they often miss the many short posts I put out on LinkedIn each day, that are...
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Norway’s Bergen International Literary Festival will be live-streamed again after success of 2021 event
The Bergen International Literary Festival will host a six-hour live broadcast kicking off in...
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Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people
With just 5.4 million people Norway is significantly smaller than cities like London or New York,...
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Storytel Nordics alone hits 1 million subscribers
Comprising Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland the Nordics is a region of five national...
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Gyldendal sees 50% of revenue from digital as Norway’s publishing industry rises 12.6% in H2 2020
Including education, Gyldendal has over 3 million digital users – this, remember, in a country of...
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Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles
Nextory is claiming to be the second largest digital books service in Norway and the only...
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Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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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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