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Vikram Narayan presents What do Subscription EBook Services Really Mean for Indie Authors?
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Its possible to run a subscription like this and not lose money — the ebook subscription service Oyster, for example, was profitable in terms of gross — but it's very hard to do at the scale MoviePass is operating at and it's near impossible to do it with margins that would make investors salivate.
This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.
Entitle Christian, as the service is called, allows its members to download up to four books per month depending on the pricing option they choose; unlike typical subscription models, this one serves as more of a book club of sorts, as the ebooks do not disappear after a predetermined amount of time.
3) You don't think there should be any force that determines a good book or a bad book but the public 4) You have built a company based on submitting user generation content to all major online bookstores, libraries and eBook subscription sites.
It didn't take long after the launch of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service for the outcry to begin, but unlike other criticisms the retail book giant has weathered, this one came from its most staunch supporters: self - published authors.
Readfy has rolled out an ebook subscription service in Germany that offers subscribers the option to read ebooks for free as long as they don't mind enduring ads once in a while.
One of the things that has kept subscription ebook reading from already securing its place on consumers» devices has been reluctance on the part of publishers, authors, and rights holders to adopt a model that didn't offer very clear explanations of how royalties will be determined.
Further, owners don't get to own the ebooks they have borrowed from Oyster, for the moment the monthly subscription is discontinued, all of the ebooks will vanish from your device.
This doesn't seem to be a popular sentiment at the moment, but I believe 2015 will bring with it the demise of the broad - based subscription model for ebooks.
Oh, I should clarify, Scribd doesn't separate audiobooks from ebooks, they're both in ONE subscription.
Question: Where do you prefer to read eBooks: on your Kindle, Nook, desktop computer, on an app on your smartphone or tablet, through a subscription service, or several of the above?
You don't pay anything monthly for Kindles unless you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's ebooks subscription service.
Virtually all books that are out of copyright are already available for free across the internet at various sites in most formats and you can use several apps to convert them into the Kindle ebook format.I can not support any attempt by Amazon to start charging for books that are already free.I do support the concept of a subscription based ebook service however and encourage all publishers to enter into such an agreement as quickly as possible before they become completely irrelevant.
One of the benefits to the subscriber libraries that comes from using a subscription model, at least at the onset of ebook lending, is it allows them to track patron usage, user interest, and overall lending data so that they can do a better job of applying their budgets to digital content.
If you like getting your reading material via ebook subscription services, I can report that Oyster and Scribd do both have Android apps.
Frankly, it didn't take that much time to come to the same conclusions about ebook subscriptions as Mr. Weldon.
Apple had once planned to handle all subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and ebooks through its own Appstore and take 30 % out of each transaction to do so.
More publishers will endorse the subscription ebook model by doing business with Oyster, Scribd and other similar services.
I did some investigating of my own and it does indeed appear as if Amazon is getting set to introduce... an ebook rental type of service... as part of their Amazon Prime subscription package.
The list of subscription providers goes on to include big names such as Disney and TED doing their specific eBooks.
Matthias Matting of Die Self - Publisher - Bibel points out that the updated law does not apply to ebook subscription and lending services.
They do make more money off discrete sales so, no, they do not want to move the entire ebook business to subscriptions.
On the subject of a subscription service at iBooks, I don't have any knowledge of such a thing but they have gotten into subscriptions in a big way with music, so a move into ebook subscriptions wouldn't be such a stretch.
Part of that is that Kindle doesn't just sell ebooks; it provides subscription access through Kindle Unlimited that in the aggregate logs a lot of eyeball hours.
But this will only work if a library has a system set up in place to accept these types of donations, and if the ebook lending platform allows for you to buy specific books (instead of a Netflix - like subscription where you don't get to pick individual titles).
This deal doesn't mean Google is building out its own ebook subscription service (or is interested in doing so).
One truly bizarre omission is the fact that the ebook store on the Kobo Touch doesn't have a section for newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
It turns out that ebook subscription models don't work very well when people read too much.
Special ebook apps are being slurped up for their tech; ebook subscriptions don't work; people are buying fewer ebooks, and they're reading the ones that they are buying not on e-readers but on their phones, alongside a ton of other competing content that is formatted for mobile and that is in many cases free.
The downside is that Sony's ebook store isn't as big as some of the others, and it doesn't offer as many options for newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
Ebook subscription can work, maybe, if it's done the way Amazon is doing it: With tiny payments for authors, backed by a giant company that can actually also afford to take a loss on the program (though we have no proof that Amazon is taking a loss on Kindle Unlimited).
What do you think about ebook subscription services?
It makes Oyster look pretty prescient for focusing so hard on its technology and mobile reading experience (as it did from launch — and which was surely one of the main reasons it raised $ 17 million from big VCs), because otherwise the company's exit would only stand as a symbol of the fact that ebook subscriptions don't work.
To put into perspective what the latest eBook market is doing, it seems eBook subscription service providers have begun to open a new chapter of reading for readers to explore the books that they may like conveniently.
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.