BookBeat
| BookBeat
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2019 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Kathrin Rustig |
| Branch | Streaming media |
| Website | www.bookbeat.de |
BookBeat is a digital streaming service for audio books and was developed in 2015 by the Swedish company BookBeat AB. For a fixed monthly price, the user can listen to any number of audio books on smartphones and tablets. BookBeat has also been available in Germany since 2017. The German BookBeat GmbH was founded in 2019, the company is based in Munich and the business address is in Berlin.
Company history
BookBeat is a subsidiary of the media company Bonnier Media Deutschland GmbH.
In 2015, a beta version of the streaming service was tested by the first users in the home market of Sweden. Based on their feedback, the streaming service was further developed and opened to the entire Swedish market in February 2016. Shortly thereafter, BookBeat also launched in Finland, followed by Great Britain and Germany in 2017. The German service can also be used from Austria and Switzerland since the beginning of 2018.
In 2017, BookBeat was named one of the TOP 100 best digital offers in Sweden by Internetworld magazine.
At the end of June 2019, the company had 200,000 paying users in four markets: Sweden, Finland, Germany and the UK.
In June 2019, BookBeat launched its service in 24 more European countries, including Italy, Spain, Denmark, Poland and the Netherlands, making it available in a total of 28 countries.
product
With BookBeat tens of thousands of audio book titles from several hundred publishers (including Der Hörverlag , Hörbuch Hamburg , Lübbe Audio and Argon ) can be listened to as part of an all-you-can-read model.
Usage rights and possibilities
The service is available on smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android). The flat rate offers its users unlimited access to all audio books in the catalog as well as editorial recommendations and audio book lists. The audiobooks can be saved in a personal library within the app. Listening is possible online and offline. BookBeat offers its German-language service in two versions: the standard subscription covers up to 25 hours per month, the premium subscription offers unlimited consumption.
Web links
- Official website www.bookbeat.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://topp100.idg.se/2.39772/1.676684/topp100-2017-hela-lista
- ↑ Sweden's Bookbeat grew 163% to 150,000 in 2018. Targets 250,000 subscribers by end of 2019. In: The New Publishing Standard. January 3, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ https://digital.di.se/artikel/bookbeat-lanserar-pa-24-europeiska-marknader
- ↑ The audio book market continues to grow at stuttgarter-zeitung.de
- ↑ https://www.dnv-online.net/handel/detail.php?nr=132086&Handel
- ↑ https://www.dnv-online.net/handel/detail.php?nr=133569&Handel