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• GoRead - Translations are a success & See your sales every week Translations have already been made by customers into all languages and many authors are now published in multiple countries on the audiobook services. September brings 100 new audiobook titles published through GoRead and almost as many physical book titles. Now you get statistics every week on how much your titles have sold in different formats and channels.
• GoRead - Translate your book into 9 languages August offers a range of new features in the service. We are now introducing AI translations to and from Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, English, German, Polish, Dutch and Bulgarian. As an author, you can now upload manuscripts and also create an AI-narrated audiobook in all of these languages. For those who already have a studio-recorded audiobook, you can now upload it and use GoRead for your distribution. We have added Audible as a sales channel for audiobooks, which has great potential for audiobooks especially in English and German.
• GoRead – News for June We’re now welcoming authors in Finland and Denmark to GoRead! They can publish e-books and audiobooks on the streaming services and order printed books for their own sales (distribution to bookstores currently takes place only in Sweden). In late summer, we’ll also be launching a new translation feature in the platform. Here’s a summary of what the GoRead team has launched recently and what we’re working on right now:
• GoRead - Newsletter for the month of May It has now been three months since GoRead launched, and hundreds of authors have already released their audiobook, e-book, or printed book through the service. In the picture you can see some of the features available to make your life as a self-published author better, so that you get read and listened to in all the ways customers find easiest. Here are some things the GoRead team has shipped recently, and is working on right now:
• Swedes increasingly positive about AI-narrated audiobooks In the Publishers Association's recently published Book Barometer for 2026, it emerges that Swedes' attitude towards AI-written books is very negative. However, the attitude and willingness to listen to audiobooks narrated with a synthetic AI voice is surprisingly positive among those who have actually tried it.
• News on GoRead in April! New month, new improvements, and together we have now published 100 works!
• Translate your book with AI: how to do it, what it costs and tips A book in Swedish reaches at most the readers who understand Swedish. A translation opens up new countries, new streaming services and new listeners – but has long been the most expensive and slowest step in publishing. With AI translation, it's now possible to have an entire novel translated in about an hour, at a cost an independent publisher can afford.
• Producing an AI audiobook: how to do it, what it costs and tips For many readers, the audiobook is the obvious way to enjoy a book – on the bus, during a walk or at the kitchen sink. Yet it has long been out of reach for most self-publishers, because a traditional studio recording costs a lot of money and takes a long time. With AI voices, that has changed. Today you can produce an audiobook from your own manuscript in a few hours and have it out on the streaming services the same day.
• Publish a book with print on demand – a printed book without a print run Holding your own book in your hands is a dream for many who write. In the past, that meant printing a run of several hundred copies, paying in advance and hoping the boxes in storage would sell. With print on demand, you need neither a print run nor a warehouse. The book is printed when someone orders it, and you can publish it without tying up any money in advance.
• News on GoRead in March! We are now releasing some improvements that we hope you will like! We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for all the wonderful and valuable feedback from our customers! Are you one of them?
• How much do you earn from publishing a book? How much do you earn from publishing a book? The honest answer is that it varies enormously. A few authors make a good living from their books, many earn a welcome extra income and quite a lot roughly break even. What determines this is not just how many books you sell, but also how you publish, in which formats and in which channels.
• Publishing a book – how it works, step by step You've written a book, or you're well on your way. Now you want it to be read. But how do you actually publish a book? Should you send the manuscript to a publisher and hope for a yes, pay a hybrid publisher, or publish the book yourself?
• Self-publishing, hybrid publisher, or traditional publisher? When the manuscript is finished, you face a choice that affects everything that follows: who should publish the book? You can send it to a traditional publisher, pay a hybrid publisher, or publish it yourself. The three paths differ in cost, time, control, rights, and how much you earn per book sold.
• GoRead attracts media attention GoRead launched on February 13, 2026 - users queued to upload their book manuscripts, and a number of media outlets are writing about the service. Here are some articles about GoRead so far.
• What does it cost to publish a book? Prices and calculation examples What does it cost to publish a book? The answer can be anything from zero kronor to several tens of thousands, depending on how you publish, which formats you choose and how much of the work you do yourself. That makes the question hard to give a straight answer to.
• GoRead launches - aims to become a YouTube for books GoRead is now launching with the goal of becoming a YouTube for books. GoRead was founded in 2023 by developers Victor Holmqvist and Björn Hickman from KTH, IT consultant Sara Wallerstedt and Storytel founder Jonas Tellander. As a first step, they are offering a publishing service for books and audiobooks in Swedish.
• GoRead makes it easy for authors to reach their audience GoRead's book publishing service is being launched with the goal of making it as easy to publish your book as it is to release a podcast on Spotify or upload a video on YouTube.
• Get your audiobook out on the streaming services GoRead has signed agreements with Storytel, Bookbeat, and Nextory so that audiobooks and e-books created through GoRead's platform become available to subscribers on the streaming services.
• Produce your own AI audiobook with lifelike voices GoRead signs an agreement with ElevenLabs to create AI-produced audiobooks with narration that feels real for a fraction of the cost.
• Publish your physical book through Print-On-Demand in bookstores Through a collaboration with Publit, GoRead offers its authors the opportunity to make their physical book available in Swedish bookstores, online, and by order in physical stores.