Category: Trends

Digital audio, including audiobooks and podcasts, have been growing at a staggeringly fast pace, increasing by 500% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022.

TikTok, the social media monolith with over 1 billion monthly users from 154 countries around the world, had a booth at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.

With the plethora of content sources and social media platforms available, consumers attention spans are getting shorter and their demand for succinct, digestible content is growing.

The global pandemic led to unprecedented changes in key areas of the publishing sector. While smaller cities are “getting back to normal” with sales started to stabilize and increase, larger cities appear to still be impacted with little to no growth overall.