With subscription ebook services, readers surf books effortlessly, as if visiting a massive online library, and once they hit a percentage threshold of pages read for an individual title, it triggers a full sale.
With subscription ebook services, readers surf books, as if visiting a massive online library, and once they hit a percentage threshold of pages read for an individual title, it triggers a full sale.
Not exact matches
Its possible to run a
subscription like this and not lose money — the
ebook subscription service Oyster, for example, was profitable in terms of gross — but it's very hard to do at the scale MoviePass is operating at and it's near impossible to do it
with margins that would make investors salivate.
With subscription services gaining popularity, voracious readers can now consume dozens of
eBooks for a low monthly fee.
We have seen this transpire
with eBook subscription services and getting involved in digital libraries.
Owen also pointed out that HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher that has signed on
with Scribd, «just as HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher making its books available to Oyster or to another recently launched
ebook subscription service, eReatah.»
Smashwords signed a distribution agreement
with eBook subscription service Scribd last December.
Librify, which started beta testing
with select users in March, offers a social -
subscription service for
eBooks.
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Scribd, the popular document sharing
service, jumped into the ring earlier this month
with a slightly cheaper
ebook subscription service — $ 8.99 per month — but an undisclosed number of books to read.
The Tolino Alliance, Germany's biggest Amazon competitor (
with about 50 % of the book market share) has just announced the release of their new
ebook subscription service: Tolino Select.
With the purchase of Denmark's Mofibo, the Swedish
ebook and audiobook
subscription service Storytel has added at least 50,000 members to its base of approximately 220,000 subscribers.
As the revolution in streaming anime took off this year, I think
ebook manga could seriously take off
with a
subscription service.
Legimi is the largest
ebook subscription service in Poland and the company has ironed out an agreement
with Pocketbook to include support for their entire
ebook catalog for paid subscribers.
In a long - expected move, Amazon on July 18 announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited, a new
subscription service that will give users unlimited access to a selection of 600,000
ebooks and more than 2,000 audiobooks on Amazon Kindle devices and any device
with a Kindle app for $ 9.99 per month.
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Subscription Services Many subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distri
Subscription Services Many
subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distri
subscription platforms work
with existing publishers to distribute
ebooks.
Most of the publishers are also refusing to work
with the new
ebook subscription services, or have treated libraries as second - class citizens, even though these two channels provide yet another healthy counterbalance to a single retailer's dominance.
It's basically the same selection of books available
with Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's
ebook subscription service.
More publishers will endorse the
subscription ebook model by doing business
with Oyster, Scribd and other similar
services.
Smashwords struck a deal
with Scribd to add more than 200,000
eBooks by indie authors to the
subscription service started by Scribd.
And they needed authors who were willing to experiment
with things like free promotions, bundling print and
ebooks, and offering their books as part of
subscription services.
And
with the contracts that are coming out that leave discounting in
ebooks in the hands publishers — I think Amazon 1) needed to have a competing
subscription service so as not to lose out in this new model and 2) needed content — which is why they turned to indies as they always have to get content when traditional publishers won't play ball.
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Several companies have started offering
ebook subscription services, such as Oyster, Scribd and Entitle, over the past year; it was only a matter of time before Amazon got onboard
with the idea as well — now if only they can convince some big - name publishers too (that's probably what's delaying the announcement).
Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription service is now live in the United States,
with more countries getting access to the
service soon.
There's been no official announcement from Amazon just yet, but there's a story at Gigaom
with very compelling evidence that Amazon is close to revealing a new
service called Kindle Unlimited, an
ebook subscription service for $ 9.99 per month.
Scribd is the first
eBook subscription service to reach agreement
with this many comic book publishers.
The analysis of Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription will provide you
with more information about the
service.
This is a standalone
ebook subscription service with a monthly fee of $ 9.99.
On the subject of a
subscription service at iBooks, I don't have any knowledge of such a thing but they have gotten into
subscriptions in a big way
with music, so a move into
ebook subscriptions wouldn't be such a stretch.
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Amazon's
service, which has been rumored for a couple of months, would compete
with existing
ebook subscription services Scribd and Oyster.
The
ebook subscription service Scribd has just expanded its catalog offerings
with a mountain of audiobooks — 30,000, if you're counting.
There are a number of
ebook subscription services cropping up lately, but Scribd is the only one offering audiobooks in addition to
ebooks, along
with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited
service.
The two key suggestions, neither of which has drawn any evident interest from the management at PRH, were a program to supply non-bookstores
with vendor - managed inventory (creating store retail accounts nobody else would have) and to create their own
ebook subscription service.
The company launched its own online
ebook subscription service back in February, and now it is back
with audiobooks.
Speaking of
eBooks, Readfy tries to come up
with an idea to offer ad - support
eBooks for free as opposed to other
eBook subscription's paid
services.
Publisher made Korean
ebooks are priced at around 10000 won (8.8 USD) individually, but Kyobo also offers a
subscription service with discounts.
Neither Scribd nor Oyster divulge a great deal in the way of statistics, but in January, Scribd said that since the launch of the
subscription service in October 2013, the subscriber base has grown by an average of 31 % a month,
with readers spending over 17 million hours reading 500,000
ebooks.
Smashwords today announced a distribution agreement
with Oyster, a new and innovative
ebook subscription service.
Denmark has two rival
ebook subscription services, Riidr and Mofibo.Incidentally 24 Symbols is dual language Spanish and English, acknowledging the huge number of Brit expats living in Spain
with nothing to read.
Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's all - you - can - eat
ebook subscription service, has officially launched,
with more than 600,000 books that Kindle ereader and app users can choose from.
Self - publishing pioneer Smashwords has set out details of earnings for authors who sign up for the firm's new link
with ebook subscription service Oyster.
The Smashwords link - up
with ebook subscription service Scribd has got off to a strong start,
with early sales exceeding expectations and continuing to grow, and now showcasing indie authors on the Scribd website front page.
Amazon will increase its fund for self - publishers agreeing to loan their
ebooks by $ 800,000 this month, the retailer has confirmed, predicting an uptick in downloads
with the launch of the Kindle Unlimited
subscription service.
In October 2013, Scribd introduced a monthly
ebook subscription service that provides users across multiple platforms
with all - you - can - read
ebooks at a set per month price.
Peter Balis, Wiley Vice President, Business Development, Global Digital Books, says: «We are excited to make our books available through Scribd's
ebook subscription service with their international audience of 80 million users across all devices.
Ebook subscription service Scribd has dumped many romance and erotica novels from its line - up because they are so popular
with readers that they cost the company too much.
Check out my two part blog series starting
with my post, Examining the Business Model of
Ebook Subscription Services.
According to the company, it offers an integrated
service that combines reference databases,
subscription management, online journals, and books,
with content discoverable via commercial search engines as well as through their databases and
ebooks available in multiple formats.