BookBeat, a leading streaming service for audiobooks and RBmedia, the world’s largest audiobook publisher, have entered a distribution agreement. After the summer, BookBeat will increase its audiobook catalogue with nearly 40,000 titles from RBmedia’s audio brands.
BookBeat, one of the largest streaming services for audiobooks in Europe, has launched in the Netherlands and Belgium. The launch will give users on the two markets access to the service in Dutch and will include more than 500 000 audiobooks and e-books.
BookBeat, one of the largest streaming services for audiobooks, has now entered into a distribution agreement with the market-leading publisher within commercial books in the Dutch markets VBK Uitgevers, allowing Dutch listeners to enjoy the whole catalogue of more than 1800 audiobooks from the renowned publisher.
Today, BookBeat launches in Norway. During the fall, negotiations have been ongoing with the major local publishers and the service has been translated into Norwegian. In a short time, the users will be offered a catalogue with more than 500 000 audio- and e-books.
BookBeat’s revenue has during the first three quarters of the year increased by 39% in relation to the same period of 2020. The number of paying users was by the end of the third quarter 47% higher compared to the same time in 2020.
- The growth this summer is similar to what we saw before the pandemic where the summer season has been the annual peak for audiobooks since we launched
The strong growth continues for BookBeat. In June, the milestone of 500 000 paying users was reached, just five years after the first broad launch in the spring of 2016. The majority is located in Sweden, Finland and Germany, which each are markets with more than 100 000 paying users. Denmark and Poland are also contributing to the milestone as a result of their good performance since their l