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Storytel Reports Record 2025 Profits as Lars Wingefors Joins Board to Drive AI-Led Growth

Storytel Group delivered a landmark 2025 performance, reporting 9% revenue growth at constant exchange rates to 4.02 billion SEK, with streaming revenues reaching 3.52 billion SEK. The company achieved record profitability with a full-year gross margin of 45.6% — up from 44.8% in 2024 — and net profit of 504 million SEK, more than doubling its 2024 result of 213 million SEK. CEO Bodil Eriksson Torp announced a strategic shift toward AI-driven innovation for 2026. Lars Wingefors, founder of Embracer Group, has been nominated to the Board of Directors. Storytel is preparing for a 2026 listing on the Nasdaq Stockholm Main Market and has proposed its first-ever dividend of 1.50 SEK per share. The subscriber base reached over 2.6 million across Storytel, Mofibo, and Audiobooks.com, with more than 1.8 million titles in 55 languages.

March 27, 2026Storytel Group

Storytel Audiobooks Annual Report

Scandinavian woman with earbuds on snowy Stockholm street outside Akademibokhandeln bookshop — audiobook app on phone

Audiobooks & Streaming

Sweden's Audiobook Market: 61% of All Book Units Sold — The World's Most Mature Audio Market Reports 2025 Data

New data presented at Sweden's Book Industry Day (Bokbranschens Dag) shows that audiobooks now account for 61.1% of all book units sold in Sweden and 82% of all digital consumption. In fiction, audiobooks represent 54% of total publisher revenues. Total market revenue reached SEK 5.5 billion ($535 million), a 6.3% nominal increase, with print sales (up 7%) outperforming digital growth (4.9%) for the first time — driven by a SEK 304 million government subsidy for school books. Streaming volume grew to 48.5 million individual streams, up 5.4%.

March 25, 2026Publishing Perspectives

Sweden Audiobooks Market Data

Wireless headphones resting on a stack of books beside a smartphone showing Spotify Audiobooks

Audiobooks & Audio

Spotify at LBF: Audiobook Catalog Grows to 700,000 Titles in Two Years

Spotify announced at the London Book Fair that its audiobook catalog has grown from 150,000 titles at launch to more than 700,000 in just two years — a fourfold increase. The company positioned itself as a multi-format reading platform, highlighting features like Page Match and Recaps, and noted that 52% of UK audiobook listeners are under 35.

March 13, 2026Spotify Newsroom

Spotify Audiobooks London Book Fair