Sentences with phrase «around subscription books»

«Someone is going to figure out how to build a consumer brand around subscription books and force publishers to participate, and Amazon can't afford for it not to be Amazon.»

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He decided on a three - pronged strategy: going on the lecture circuit, delivering talks on astronomy to audiences in several major cities around the country; writing books; and launching a new monthly astronomy magazine, with a subscription price of $ 3 per year: The Sidereal Messenger.

This summer we'll launch a subscription - based service for elementary school, which will be around 100 dollars a year, and considerably less for those purchasing the elementary school books at the same time.

I may get around to buying the books and reading them eventually, perhaps used copies to save a few bucks, but if they were available right now on a subscription based service, I would go out and read them all within a few months because it would be easy and the ones I liked I would purchase new hard copies of.

«Since launching our subscription book service, our readers around the world have been asking for an app that worked with Kindle Fire,» said Trip Adler, CEO and cofounder of Scribd.

They've targeted magazine publishers primarily and as such include facsimile layouts of magazine pages and extensive functionality around advertising and subscription management, both of which have been of limited interest to traditional book publishers but are vital to magazine publishers» business models.

If readers truly stop buying Kindles and switch to iPads or cheaper alternatives, there will be more experimentation around content and how it is paid for, with book subscription services such as Scribd and Oyster — or those run by audio - book companies including Audible and Bardowl — coming to the fore.

The German book subscription app Skoobe, a joint venture project of Random House and Holtzbrinck, has been on the market for around 18 months and attracted 10,000 readers in its first year.