Sentences with phrase «e-book subscription app»

Spotify, which is another revolutionary platform that even Smashwords CEO Mark Coker has likened to Oyster's e-book subscription app, offers a similar service for music lovers, with free and premium - paid services.

Not exact matches

The startup has raised an initial $ 3 million round of funding to build an iPhone app that will offer a curated subscription for e-books.

Apps are the primarily distribution method for e-book subscription services such as Scribd and Oyster.

Currently, Apple takes a 30 % cut of subscription fees on the App Store, but now, if a customer stays subscribed to a service for multiple years, Apple will only take a 15 % cut, leaving 85 % of the profits for the e-book company.

It allows parents to buy into a monthly subscription program that allows their kids to download unlimited apps, games, and e-Books.

This year's census found that while publishers were bullish about new business models such as subscriptions from companies like Scribd, Oyster, and Kindle Unlimited, only a quarter were using this sales route and also publishing in formats like apps, e-books, audio and video.

In fact, Amazon users who purchase Amazon Prime get access to a selection of thousands of free streaming movies and TV shows, as well as a selection of free apps, and a library of free e-book titles as well — and this is in addition to the free 2 - day shipping on purchases of Amazon's physical goods that the $ 79 Prime subscription already buys users (30 days of Prime is free with the purchase of a Kindle Fire).

A little more than a month after launching an iPhone app in invitation - only beta, Oyster is making its e-book subscription service available to all users and expanding to iPad.

In fact, a $ 79 subscription to Amazon Prime (which nets users free 2 - day shipping on Amazon purchases) comes with a library of free streaming movies and TV shows, free apps and games, and even a free library of Kindle e-books.

The census discovered that publishers are bullish about new business models including subscriptions (such as Scribd, Oyster, and now also Kindle Unlimited) with 1/4 of publishers following this route, and publishing flexibly in formats like apps, e-books, audio and video.

The app competes with Oyster, a similar e-book subscription service, and Amazon Kindle Unlimited, which also gives you unlimited access to select Kindle books for a monthly fee.

Since Storytel, a streaming subscription service where you can listen to audiobooks and read e-books through an app on your... Read more»

The idea is that Apple will allow app - owners to charge for in - app virtual goods like e-books and magazine subscriptions using the iTunes platform, but taking a 30 % cut in the process.

If you're using your hardware to access anything besides e-books — magazine or newspaper subscriptions, e-mail, the Web, apps, and so forth — ubiquitous wireless access becomes more important.

Since Storytel, a streaming subscription service where you can listen to audiobooks and read e-books through an app on your phone, launched in 2005, more than 1 million audiobooks have been listened to through the service.

It does strike me that subscription - based e-book apps for children like Bookboard.com that have a children's librarian curating the collection of titles they offer addresses some of these issues quality control for children's e-books.

The Oyster app, which is a subscription service that gives you access to unlimited e-books for a monthly fee (described as the «Netflix for books»), has a new built - in Lumin feature that automatically adjusts the tint of the screen depending on what time of day it is.