I'm not concerned
about ebook subscription services, because I have an idea that can compete.
What do you think
about ebook subscription services?
As we have reported previously on multiple occasions, Amazon has been talking to publishers
about an ebook subscription offering for some time now — and a cached version of a page that was put up recently and then taken down confirms the basic details.
Finally, they two lads talk
about eBook subscription services and what roles they can play in emerging markets.
Frankly, it didn't take that much time to come to the same conclusions
about ebook subscriptions as Mr. Weldon.
But its subscription model that produced those numbers was for many years, and still is, in print, so I am not sure that applies to the topic of this blog post, which is
about ebook subscriptions.
Not exact matches
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About Six Pack Abs 142 page PDF
eBook - Your Personal Metabolic Calculator - Access to an exclusive Men's Health Magazine Interview - Free Trial
Subscription to Lean Body Fitness Secrets eMagazine - A killer body weight training program developed by Turbulence Training founder Craig Ballantyne.
Because I think something very valuable in terms of speculating
about the future of serials has been left out — Scribd and Oyster and others offering
ebook subscription plans.
Oyster and Scribd are currently leading the way in
subscription ebooks, and Scribd's CEO Trip Adler had this to say
about Amazon's potential move into the
subscription sphere:
Children's
ebook subscription platform FarFaria exhibited at this year's BookExpo event to demonstrate the powerful effects of their product, but also to ensure that attendees know
about the company's pro-teacher initiative.
The number one thing that irritates me
about the whole thing is how Amazon deceptively highlights the $ 0.00 price for Kindle
ebooks that are available as part of their Kindle Unlimited
subscription plan.
One of the most talked
about developments in
eBooks this week was the partnership of HarperCollins and Scribd to sell
eBooks on a
subscription basis.
The biggest and most influential promotion service, Bookbub.com, is a
subscription service that sends email to millions of readers
about eBook specials.
Many luminaries in the publishing industry are going to talk
about the merits of
eBook subscription services.
For
ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length
about pending plans for a
subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption
subscription reading market has lacked.
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.
Thinking
about more of the product vs service model...
ebooks CAN be a service if say Netflix started offing them or Pandora / yahoo, etc started lettin you read as part of your monthly
subscription.
Today, Editor in Chief Michael Kozlowski and Senior Editor Mercy Pilkington talk for an hour
about the Digital Book World Conference that transpired this week and discuss the business model of
eBook Subscription websites, how Libraries are acting as retail... [Read more...]
Today on the show we talk
about the aggressive international expansion of publishers into the Chinese Market and various
eBook subscription services.
He also talks
about the illustrated book business is on the decline and
eBook subscription services like Oyster and Scribd entering a boom period.
She speaks
about the rise in self - publishing and how Smashwords is making indie titles more accessible to libraries,
eBook subscription sites and Overdrive.
Obviously when we talked
about iOS the subject gravitated towards Apple and their new mandate to handle all of the
subscription and
ebook purchasing.
eBooks Kindle en Español includes: • All of the Spanish - language Nielsen best sellers available as
eBooks in the United States, and 65 of the top 100 Spanish - language print best sellers from Amazon.com • The largest representation of Mexican authors, including Jose Emilio Pacheco, Carlos Monsivais and Sergio Pitol • Kindle Singles in Spanish, including Singles by best - selling authors Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Orlean • An exclusive selection of Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go books in Spanish • Compilations of articles from «El Pais,» including exclusive pieces from Mexican journalists writing
about Mexican current affairs •
Subscriptions to 14 leading Latin American newspapers such as El Universal and La Nacion • Popular English - language books translated into Spanish, such as the Hunger Games series, the Twilight series, «Steve Jobs,» «The Help,» and books by authors Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Joel Osteen
Amazon (s AMZN) has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, the $ 9.99 / month
ebook and audiobook
subscription service we told you
about on Wednesday.
With Kobo launching their audiobook
subscription plan last week, where customers can get one audiobook per month for $ 9.99, it has me thinking
about how
ebooks and audiobooks are treated differently.
This might have been the tone in presentations
about I See Me, a 16 - year - old personalized - book company, for example, or
about children's
ebook subscription programmes MeeGenius, Speakaboos, and (not yet launched) SmartyPAL.
If you are hesitating
about getting Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription, this may be the ultimate argument to go for it — we've counted how many KU eligible books are on the list of Top 100 Kindle bestsellers of 2017.
The analysis of Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription will provide you with more information
about the service.
Kindle Unlimited (KU), Amazon's
ebook subscription program, is estimated to represent
about 14 % of all
ebook reads in the Amazon ecosystem.
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited — Amazon's tablet
subscription product for kids that includes unlimited access to
ebooks, movies and games — is not available on the Kindle Paperwhite, though Grandinetti said the company is thinking
about how that could work.
Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription gives unlimited access not only to 1.4 million Kindle
ebooks (it's
about one - fourth of the entire Kindle Store), but also thousands of audiobooks.
If you are hesitating
about getting Amazon's
ebook subscription, this may be the ultimate argument to go for it.
In the list below, you will find current deals on Kindle
ebooks, as well as information
about special offers on Amazon
subscriptions: Kindle Unlimited (
ebooks, comic books, magazines), and Audible (audiobooks).
Poor sales is another challenge that authors remain doubtful
about switching to the
eBook subscription platform.
Amazon has been unsurprisingly reticent
about sharing data
about their Kindle Unlimited program, a
subscription system that lets you download ostensibly free
ebooks, mostly from Indie authors.
Many commentators have claimed that the whole
ebook subscription business is unsustainable, but Amazon is in a unique position of never worrying too much over whether it's making a straightforward profit, but instead more concerned
about whether it's building business.
As we all wait with bated breath for the 15th (or thereabouts) of the month which will reveal August's borrow rate for
ebooks on Kindle Unlimited (my bet is on a range of $ 1.60 - $ 1.70), I thought I'd set out a few numbers I've crunched
about the effects of the first couple of months of Kindle Unlimited and the
ebook subscription business in general.
• All of the Spanish - language Nielsen best sellers available as
eBooks in the United States, and 65 of the top 100 Spanish - language print best sellers from Amazon.com • The largest representation of Mexican authors, including Jose Emilio Pacheco, Carlos Monsivais and Sergio Pitol • Kindle Singles in Spanish, including Singles by best - selling authors Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Orlean • An exclusive selection of Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go books in Spanish • Compilations of articles from «El Pais,» including exclusive pieces from Mexican journalists writing
about Mexican current affairs •
Subscriptions to 14 leading Latin American newspapers such as El Universal and La Nacion • Popular English - language books translated into Spanish, such as the Hunger Games series, the Twilight series, «Steve Jobs,» «The Help,» and books by authors Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Joel Osteen
And for those of you who can't get enough of the
subscription model (or you hate it or you love it or just want to learn more), on June 11 at Noon Eastern I'm participating in a webinar debate
about subscription ebook services produced by Digital Book World.
No doubt you've been reading excitedly
about the new US start - ups offering
ebooks subscription stores.