Not exact matches
The beauty
of an
subscription video - on - demand
service is that we can continue to test different types
of content and
because of the direct connection we have with our end user — it's a dialog that continues.
The
service continues to woo top - tier creators, Kilar said,
because it offers a cut
of both advertising and
subscription revenues — translating to a $ 50 CPM, or rate
of payment per 1,000 views, which is 20 times larger than average rates currently offered by YouTube.
According to several music executives, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity
because the talks are private, Apple recently tried but failed to persuade record labels to agree to lower licensing costs that would have let Apple sell
subscriptions to its streaming
service for $ 8 a month — a discount from the $ 10 that has become standard for
services like Spotify, Rhapsody and Rdio.
AT&T and Time Warner have said there won't be any incentive for a combined company to threaten to withhold content or increase prices,
because by doing so, it would risk distributors walking away, leaving the company out tens
of millions
of dollars in ad revenue and
subscription fees — far greater than any revenue AT&T might pick up from customers who would switch to its own pay - TV
services in order to get Time Warner content back.
GORDON T LONG: Right now I am pretty well restricted to my work
because I am retired, I'm an investor, I just manage my own money and I do this work to really narrow in on where my investing should be, but I publish and put all
of this at www.matasii.com and there's a
subscription service for it depending on what kind
of detail you want to go down to, but a lot
of it is right out on a public page.
If World
of Jewish Singles terminates your membership in the
Service because you have breached this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund
of unused membership /
subscription fees.
I've canceled my cable
subscription because I use a lineup
of free streaming
services for my TV - binging needs.
If LoveCompass Free Online Dating terminates your membership in the
Service because you have breached the Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund
of unused
subscription fees.
At a time when Scribd, iirc, is dropping a large number
of its romance titles
because its
subscription service was badly conceived, jumping out
of Amazon could be viewed as self - defeating.
«The great danger is that publishers allow frontlist titles to go into these
subscription services,» he noted, «
because that will be the end
of the publishing business as we know it.»
On Thursday, France's Minister
of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, announced that Kindle Unlimited (KU) and other unlimited ebook
subscription services are illegal in France
because they violate the country's fixed book price law.
24Symbols pointed out the the
subscription model worked well
because if the customers like the
service they tend to forget about how much it is costing them and this takes pricing out
of the equation.
The only reason I truly care is that
because of Amazons $ 10 a month
subscription ebook
service, they've singed quite a few
of my favourite authors to exclusive distribution.
For all
of us, there is the fact that ebook
subscription services promote themselves as «a Netflix for books» even though the idea
of «a Netflix for books» predates Netflix by many, many years,
because that idea is a public library.
«While the publishing world's US
subscription players (Oyster, Scribd, and Kindle Unlimited) remain everyone's favorite punching bags — and as Spotify vs. Apple Music vs. Tidal splinters the user experience in the music world — ebook
subscription services across Europe such as Mofibo (Scandinavia), Nubico (Spain), Skoobe (Germany) have to navigate unnecessarily complicated waters, constantly justifying their own positions and dodging the looming tar brush that «
subscriptions are bad news» — all
because of the actions
of others.»
It was the only kind
of deal publishers would sign (for lots
of good reasons, and some less less good reasons), but that did not make the economics stack up any better: the writing was on the wall back in July when rival
subscription company Scribd culled a range
of romance and erotica titles from its
service because they were costing the company too much money.
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.
Subscription services like Scribd and Oyster ran into problems
because they paid out based on the list price
of books, regardless
of how many subscribers they had and the average number
of books a subscriber read per month.
Mark Coker on Smashwords Amazon Lowers Kindle Unlimited Payouts «Last Friday in a bit
of news that was missed by most indie authors, Amazon quietly announced that
because they're pricing their Kindle Unlimited ebook
subscription service at $ 3.00 per month in India, authors will now earn less.»
[Ward] also indicated the KU experience affected all
of her titles at Amazon, even the ones that were not part
of the
subscription service, «
because buyers changed into borrowers, who in turn did not spend money on my other titles.»
This was illustrated by rival ebook
subscription service Scribd when it dumped lots
of romance and erotica titles from its line - up in July
because they were too popular with readers and cost the company too much.
I could see game streaming become a part
of Nintendo's
subscription service, too,
because it would allow them to bring any Nintendo title to the platform without the need
of porting / emulating them.
Nowadays you're not actually «purchasing» a PC game, but rather «subscribing» to it or purchasing a license for it, which means game publishers can tell you how many times you can install a game, make you pay to unlock content that's already on the disc, or go ahead and revoke your right to play a game, and there's nothing illegal about them doing any
of these things at all
because you paid $ 50 for a
service (the
subscription or license) rather than for a product.
EA Access works differently, but it is still worth mentioning
because it is a
subscription gaming
service that carries a significant amount
of added value for some families.
Because of our live
service offerings, the
subscription really is about onboarding a large community globally
of committed, connected players, who not only play the games in the
subscription, but also participate in the live
services.
As promised, Nintendo has shared extra particulars on the Nintendo Switch on - line
subscription service, which is
because of roll out in September.
Because Mojo charges a
subscription to all customers, regardless
of how much energy they use but offers cheaper electricity rates, the
service is likely to be most beneficial for heavier electricity consumers.
That will provide immediate OA; and if and when universal Green OA should go on to make
subscriptions unsustainable (
because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions) that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition, access - provision, archiving), downsize to just providing the
service of peer review, and convert to the Gold OA cost - recovery model; meanwhile, the
subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these residual
service costs.
There is more
of a move towards the Internet
because you do have a little bit more freedom
of choice, people do have — when it comes to television, they find they don't need 700 channels, they just need a handful
of channels that they watch all the time and that they are willing to pay a monthly price for that, it's most
of the time less than cable, and I think that's an interesting other notion that traditional
services with the judicial pricing is fading out in favor
of, and I think that that was another piece that Mary Meeker brought up, is the idea
of the
subscription that
subscription services on the Internet are also kind
of all the rage being able to subscribe to things that you receive on a regular basis, Office 365, Acrobat, they are all on
subscription services, a very model
of how we purchase these things is changing as well, and that's all due to the Internet.
As I see it, Google's free legal research
services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not for a long, long time,  Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those
services for free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those
subscriptions when there's a robust free option available? My heart goes out to these companies
because they served as an oasis for solos when no other options, save the law library and manual research, existed. Yet I don't see all
of them able to survive the Google onslaught.
Okay Simon, your publisher must have been smoking something
because the business model for this already exists in a
service called IndexMaster and the majors are already represented — see the list at http://www.indexmaster.com/Partpub.html
Of course this is a
subscription only
service, and at my old firm we had it accessible on the Intranet, but I never found it terribly useful.
Adriana Linares: G Drive and Dropbox and then along with your
subscription if you're paying the $ 8 or the $ 12 a month you get Microsoft's version
of that file storage syncing and sharing
service which is called Microsoft OneDrive, and
of course, saving documents in and out
of it is easy
because it's integrated right into all
of the Microsoft applications.
Because of this (and my interest in shiny new things), I've tried out endless
subscription services, boxes and memberships, and these are the ones that have remained constant through the last few years.
But people stick with cable
subscriptions because for all their flaws — bundling, upselling, treating customers terribly — you're subscribing to a single, unified cable package instead
of having to manage an ever - increasing number
of streaming
services to put together your entertainment - watching puzzle.
Hey, AMC Theatres, maybe instead
of pouting
because your own
subscription service couldn't move forward and punishing the customers who are taking advantage
of the free market, why don't you figure out how to make your movie theater experience worth the ticket price?
They say that antennas are more appealing than ever
because of the rise
of online video
subscription streaming
services.
If the rumored YouTube Music Key
subscription service comes to pass, it will be
because plenty
of users already enjoy music via YouTube.
US cinema
subscription service MoviePass is cheap to avail
of, but that might be
because the user
of the app is actually the product.
It's possible that Microsoft isn't shrinking its
subscription plans only
because of a few digital hoarders — with OneDrive being baked into Windows 10 and more devices upgrading to the new OS every day, it's likely that the
service's existing plans cost the company more than it bargained for initially.
«People spend an average
of $ 512 a year on unwanted
subscriptions, often
because they don't even realize they're signed up to those
services,» according to a representative from Truebill.