Poland’s Draga Group Announces an Audiobook Platform
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- 15 Mar 2023
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Our international book-industry readership for Publishing Perspectives is very familiar with Norway’s Beat Technology. Based in Bergen, the company creates audiobook platforms for European publishers and at least one African venture. In some cases, a system is supplied to a single publisher, and in other cases it’s designed for a consortium of companies working together to address the consumers of a single market or region.
Some of the news from last week’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair was that Poland’s Sonia Draga Publishing Group, based in Katowice, is expecting to launch a new audiobook platform of its own with Beat Technology.
The publishing house is best known for its eponymous publisher, Sonia Draga, who in Bologna was appearing both as the chief of her company and as the first woman vice-president of the Federation of European Publishers. She’s also president of the Polish Chamber of Books.
The name of the new platform is said to be Volume, and Draga expects that its operation will be of interest to sister publishers in Poland, those looking for a new outlet for their own audio content.
Details are a bit scant at this pre-opening point–the service is to open “soon”–but the offer to consumers is expected to use a combination of subscription formats, a-la-carte offers, and coupons to attract customers. Perhaps the closest rival to the forthcoming service is Legimi, Mikołaj Małaczyński‘s Poznań-based ebook and audiobook subscription service opened in 2009. Read More…
