Storytel e-book service will leave Russia from October 1
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The Swedish e-book service Storytel stops working in Russia from October 1, reported “RIA News”. Corresponding letters were sent to the customers of the service.
“Dear Storytel users, we have sad news – you can continue to use the application only until September 30 this year, from October 1, the application will become unavailable,” the service said in a message.
Storytel promised a refund to those who had a subscription for several months – a refund will be made on September 30 for the unused period. Also, former users of the service will be able to get three months of free access to audiobooks on Litres.
Storytel announced the suspension of work in the Russian market in March 2022 against the backdrop of Russia conducting a special operation in Ukraine. The service was available only to current subscribers, new users could not pay for access. Another major foreign digital book service, Bookmate, did not stop working in Russia.
June 28 “Litres” informed on the launch of a subscription to audiobooks and their electronic versions – the subscription catalog includes more than 190,000 digital books (about 140,000 are audiobooks and podcasts, the rest are electronic books) and only those whose price does not exceed 399 rubles. (excluding discounts). Then the general director of Litres Sergey Anuryev told Vedomosti that according to the results of the first quarter, their share in the audiobook market was 66%, for Storytel – 28%, Bookmate – less than 1.5%.
March 21 Kommersant informedthat foreign writers, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Canadian novelist Linwood Barclay, Polish science fiction writer Adam Pshechsta and British businessman Richard Branson, are suspending work with Russian publishers after the start of a special operation in Ukraine. Also, Penguin Random House, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster and the international book wholesaler Gardners suspended their work on the Russian book market.
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