Oyster is one of the few companies in the world that has been a subscription based
eBook service actually work.
Not exact matches
This is not to mention that with
ebooks, the library doesn't
actually own anything: they pay OverDrive (or another
service) for the right to offer the book, plus they pay for the individual titles.
For
ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt
actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription - based reading
service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lacked.
People who previously didn't have a need for the social aspects of Goodreads can now use the
service to add books to their shelves and follow authors they like in order to get alerted of deals on the
ebooks they
actually want — that's a lot more personalized than typical daily deals emails.
In order to use this new interview
service, authors don't
actually have to publish an
ebook with Smashwords.
When speaking of
ebook publishing
services, there are
actually several very different things in play.
If their
ebook publishing
services actually work and the business is shifting in that direction, why would you turn down an opportunity that came from outside the client base.
The Kobo / Whitcoulls
service is more than an eReader and you don't
actually need this eReader to read the Kobo
ebooks.
First of all there is a really good blog page called
eBook Library
Services for Authors and Alliance of Independent Authors Report published on July 23, 2015 on Selfpublishingadvice.org which is from the Alliance of Independent Authors and they
actually go through some of the options for getting Indie authors into
eBooks into libraries.
Since the article was written, Google has
actually pulled out of the market for bespoke ebookstores but continues to provide an affiliate marketing
service for
ebooks.
The news comes just days after Amazon announced that authors making their books available through the Kindle lending
service will now get paid on a sliding scale depending on how much of a borrowed
ebook the reader
actually gets through.
In another of those strange entanglements you often find in the publishing world, Rakuten's LinkShare business
actually runs the affiliate promotion
service for Barnes & Noble, including
ebook retailer Nook, a rival of Kobo.
The Windows Store
actually has a good selection of
eBook services, with official apps available for Amazon Kindle, NOOK, and Kobo.