Love conquers all... and it's certainly causing problems for the online
book subscription service Scribd, which has announced it is slashing its romance and erotica offer because readers are gorging themselves.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a time of triumph, it was a time of disaster, it was the publishing industry in 2014, just after mighty Amazon fired a new salvo in its war on traditional publishing by announcing its $ 10 / month Kindle
Unlimited book subscription service.
It was supposed to add to previously announced projects such as an iOS version of its Marvel Unlimited digital
comic book subscription service and Project Gamma, which automatically syncs music while you read your digital comics.
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 move to introduce audiobooks to an e-book subscription service improves Scribd's offering in an increasingly competitive market and expands the notion of what a
digital book subscription service can entail.
The Access by BMW pilot follows in the footsteps of General Motors Co.'s Cadillac, which started
its Book subscription service in January 2017, and Porsche AG, which launched a pilot last October that combines lease, insurance and maintenance into one monthly payment.
Any big reader should definitely sign up for
a book subscription service.
This week's topics included American and German ebook reading statistics,
book subscription services, social media post length and James Patterson's writing tips.
Good e-Reader is proud to help FarFaria conduct a giveaway of their service, so three lucky readers will have the chance to enjoy the children's
book subscription service.
They should have established
a book subscription service - similar to Netflix.
Oyster raised $ 17 million of venture capital over its two rounds of financing, and Scribd recently pivoted from hosting documents to
a book subscription service.
Kindle Unlimited (Amazon's
book subscription service) pays by the page read, not the book bought, so by stuffing other books into the back of a book to make it more desirable or having the author click a link to the back of the book for an incentive, thus counting all the skipped pages as if they were read, these predators get a bigger piece of the Kindle Unlimited pie each month and authors who are playing by the intended rules get less.
Fortunately, we see new services pop up in various parts of the book market several times each year, and Amazon competes with each in turn; would Amazon offer
a book subscription service if Oyster and Scribd didn't exist?
Oyster,
a book subscription service in the United States, has kicked off 2015 with two major announcements, including offering more than 1 million books.
KU is Amazon's
book subscription service, which allows consumers to pay a flat monthly rate to download as many books as they like.
Book subscription service Scribd has launched a new app for the Kindle Fire.
At Re / code, Peter Kafka and Mark Bergen report that Oyster, the company that offered
a book subscription service a la Netflix, «is shutting down.»
Scribd was originally started as a document sharing service but added
a book subscription service in October, which featured an agreement with publisher HarperCollins.
Over a year into Amazon's Kindle Unlimited,
the book subscription service touted as the «Netflix for books,» the book landscape has changed.
What Nielsen discovered in their research was at odds with the fears of publishers... the 5 % of book buyers who subscribe to
a book subscription service continue to spend money on one - off book sales — $ 45 dollars more.