BookBeat, one of Europe’s leading streaming services for audiobooks, is strengthening its French catalogue by entering an agreement with France’s second-largest publishing group, Editis and Lizzie – its audiobook brand- as well as with Pottermore, digital publisher of the multi-million bestselling Harry Potter series.
BookBeat and Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, have signed an agreement to add over 7,000 English-language audiobooks to the BookBeat service. Simon & Schuster’s distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers and winners of the most prestigious literary honours and awardsWe are so happy to bring Simon
Italy’s largest publisher, Mondadori, reaches an agreement with BookBeat – one of the leading streaming services for audiobooks in Europe – making over 1.000 additional audiobooks available for streaming.Only a few months after entering the Italian market, BookBeat has reached agreements with all five major publishers in Italy, which accounts for the majority of the total book market. The late
BookBeat vient de lancer son application de streaming pour livres audio en France. C’est le 13ème marché sur lequel BookBeat lance une offre locale. BookBeat a travaillé sur une offre spécifique au marché français et a déjà signé un partenariat stratégique avec le leader de l’édition en France, le groupe Hachette Livre.
BookBeat has now launched in France, making it the 13th core market for the platform. BookBeat has already signed a strategic partnership with Hachette Livre, the number one publishing group in France. At the same time, BookBeat will launch a new offer in UK, offering three packages from 20 to 100 hours of listening every month, starting at 5,99£.
BookBeat, one of the leading services for audiobooks and e-books in Europe, has now launched its service in Italy and Spain. Spanish and Italian users can choose between three packages ranging from 20 to 100 hours, starting from 6,99 €.
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 in 20
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
