All you can read sales and auditing changes boost digital mag ABC figures
‘All you can read’ magazine services Apple News+, Readly, Kindle Unlimited and Cafeyn “All you can read” bundle services continue to dominate digital readership for UK magazines, new ABC figures show. Some 53% of 3.2 million digital magazine ‘sales’ of ABC-audited magazines in 2025 were from all you can read services – down slightly from 55% in 2024. This means issues of UK magazines that were read on paid-for bundling services like Apple News+, Readly, Kindle Unlimited and Cafeyn. ABC all you can read sales include any “digital copy that a consumer has purchased and viewed as part of a multi-publication package”. A view is defined as a minimum of one page of an issue being opened/served onto a device. Only one view per device per issue can be counted. Publishers do not receive the full cover price for these sales but instead receive a royalty fee based on a Spotify-style revenue share model. Five out of 116 magazines with digital editions audited by ABC received all of their digital readership from these all you …
