Book subscription service Scribd has bought social reading platform Librify.
Not exact matches
The
service, which will offer 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks for a monthly fee of $ 9.99, takes aim at
book subscription forerunners Oyster and
Scribd.
Adler will only say that his team estimates
Scribd's
subscription service offers 8 % to 10 % of all
books sold in the United States.
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A pioneer of the all - you - can - read model,
Scribd's
subscriptions service allows readers to have unlimited access to more than 500,000
books from nearly 1,000 publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Open Road Media, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Rosetta, Workman, Wiley and Smashwords.
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.»
Titles from a variety of Harlequin imprints, including Harlequin Series Romance, HQN
Books, MIRA
Books and Carina Press, will be available through
Scribd's $ 8.99 monthly
subscription service.
With the launch of the Windows app, paired with existing apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and Nook tablets,
Scribd has been downloaded more than 6 million times — placing it on more devices in more countries than any other
subscription book service.
Scribd The folks at
Scribd.com have recently re-invented their site as a
subscription service (i.e., NetFlix or Spotify for
books).
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.
Scribd (app, web)
Scribd is monthly
subscription service that gives users access to unlimited reading of
books, audiobooks and comics for $ 8.99 a month.
Last year,
Scribd hit many milestones: They introduced content from all of the «Big Five» publishers to their
subscription service and launched two new verticals — comic
books and sheet music.
He also talks about the illustrated
book business is on the decline and eBook
subscription services like Oyster and
Scribd entering a boom period.
Scribd is the premier
subscription book service with more than 1 million e-books, audiobooks, comics, and more, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners and reader favorites across every genre.
«We are very excited to take this step in expanding our
subscription service beyond
books,» said Trip Adler, co-founder and CEO of
Scribd.
«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.
Scribd and Oyster hit the nail on the head by creating
services that balance the intersecting interests of readers, authors, publishers, the
subscription service itself and the culture of
books in which we all participate.
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.
If these all - you - can - read
subscription services like Kindle Unlimited and
Scribd pan out, I think that's the end of free
book marketing «value» for e-books.
Scribd has added a travel category to their e-book
subscription service, introducing guide
books as part of a partnership with publisher Lonely Planet.
Another reason that some retailers need to keep track of how much of a
book has been read (if not who's read it) is that
subscription services like Oyster and
ScribD pay the publisher based on a percentage of the
book that was read, while KindleUnlimited pays about half a penny per «page.»
Also, if you've considered joining
Scribd and checking out their
subscription model for downloading
books, here are a few of my thoughts on the
service.
the only
subscription service paying authors by pages read, others, like
Scribd or Bookmate do not ask for exclusivity: you can enjoy all advantages of great visibility and high download rates while still selling your
books through other channels.
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.
While Amazon KU is not the only
subscription service paying authors by pages read, others, like
Scribd or Bookmate do not ask for exclusivity: you can enjoy all advantages of great visibility and high download rates while still selling your
books through other channels.
Securing viable deals with Oyster and
Scribd late last year, Mark Coker foresaw how
subscription services could fulfill the world he would like to see in the future which is a «world of many virtual bookstores, with many
book consumption methods, and many successful companies that are dedicated to putting
books in front of reader eyeballs.»
He also said there are five things to know about unlimited
subscriptions, including the fact that startups such as Oyster and
Scribd are now on borrowed time to prove their worth (about 18 months), and publishers have options, which means they can help the startups by choosing to enroll their
books in those
services.
Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon launched Kindle Unlimited, a
subscription ebook
service similar to Oyster and
Scribd.
The ebook
subscription service Scribd has expanded its library to include more than 10,000 comic
books and graphic novels, bringing its total title count to the 1 million mark.
Scribd is the first eBook
subscription service to reach agreement with this many comic
book publishers.
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?
Scribd was originally started as a document sharing
service but added a
book subscription service in October, which featured an agreement with publisher HarperCollins.
As we know, publishers need to sell
books to remain viable, and many self - published authors do not have their
books available for lending in libraries or even in digital
subscription services like Kindle Unlimited or
Scribd.
Through the new
service, Amazon enters direct competition with other e-book
subscription services like
Scribd and Oyster, two slightly cheaper
services with a smaller selection of titles but including
books from popular publishers like HarperCollins.
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.
My
book once appeared at
Scribd, but then it disappeared As a
subscription service that allows unlimited reading for only $ 8.99 per month,
Scribd must closely manage the costs associated with the
books it makes available to subscribers.
About
Scribd Scribd is the premier
subscription book service with more than half a million e-books and 30K audiobooks, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners and reader favorites across every genre.
The panel, moderated by Mark Coker of Smashwords, included Justo Hidalgo from the Spanish - language
subscription service 24Symbols, Noelle Millholt of the children's
book service Speakaboo, and Andrew Weinstein of
Scribd (you can find a curated selection of IR /
Scribd indie titles here).
Kindle Unlimited is Amazon's response to the initial success of ebook
subscription services such as
Scribd and Oyster
Books.
D2D's other channels include iBooks, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Kobo, Page Foundry, ebook
subscription service Scribd and Amazon's self - published print
book arm CreateSpace.
Between
Scribd, Oyster and Kindle Unlimited, subscribers to these
services aren't necessarily exposed to the price of the
book, which means retail price isn't a decision factor, and we don't separate out
subscription sales from our data set.
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 dev
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 dev
books available through
Scribd's ebook
subscription service with their international audience of 80 million users across all devices.
As well as a free one - year
subscription to the
Scribd service, the deal also covers marketing support for Smashwords authors, including featuring throughout curated
book merchandising, inclusion on the site's home page in a new
Scribd Selects merchandising feature and a profile page for each author to promote their own
books and
books they like reading.
And then I look at the pure plays like Barnes & Noble and Kobo, or ebook
subscription services like
Scribd, for which their businesses are almost entirely dependent upon their ability to sell
books at a profit.
Reports indicate that although none of the Big 5 publishers has signed up for KU, the publishers that have signed have done so for a deal of 60 % of list price, which seems to be the going rate for distribution through rival ebook
subscription services such as
Scribd and Oyster
Books.