KKR-owned RB Media, a producer of audiobooks, has acquired two further audiobook publishers, Upfront Books, in the US, and Thélème, in France. At the same time, the company has signed a deal to add 40k of its 60k titles to the Swedish company BookBeat which will promote the books across a number of international markets.
Bookbeat has 600k subscribers, principally in Germany, Sweden and Finland. RB Media, based in Maryland, was founded in 2017 and acquired by KKR in 2018. It claims to be the largest publisher of audiobooks.
