Sentences with phrase «do subscription ebook services»

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.
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.
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.
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.
If you like getting your reading material via ebook subscription services, I can report that Oyster and Scribd do both have Android apps.
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.
Matthias Matting of Die Self - Publisher - Bibel points out that the updated law does not apply to ebook subscription and lending services.
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.
This deal doesn't mean Google is building out its own ebook subscription service (or is interested in doing so).
What do you think about ebook subscription services?
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.
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