I believe that there are many users who can't decide whether they need
the ebook subscription at all.
Not exact matches
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.
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Publishers may offer
ebooks at a discount with an annual
subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled discounts.
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.
At this year's BookExpo event, two companies were featuring their children's
ebook subscription services.
Niclas Sandin, c.e.o. of BookBeat, Bonnier's
ebook and audiobook
subscription service in Sweden, said he predicted growth would be in double digits for
at least the next decade.
Children's
ebook subscription platform FarFaria exhibited
at this year's BookExpo event to demonstrate the powerful effects of their product, but also to ensure that attendees know about the company's pro-teacher initiative.
Amazon Kindle Freetime Unlimited is a
subscription program that is aimed
at kids and the platform has thousands of
eBooks, movies, television shows and apps.
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At the $ 50 tier, the magazine
subscriptions kick in, with
eBooks and download access to the previous two years, as well as their adult line Cherry Bomb becoming available.
Wei Shi, an analyst
at Strategy Analytics» wireless media strategies division, said that a significant development in the
eBook market is
subscription - based services launched by platforms like Amazon Unlimited, which have a model similar to how Spotify and Pandora work in the music industry.
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.
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.
Almost a year ago, I covered the Book Industry Study Group's release of a major evaluation of
ebook subscription services here
at The FutureBook.
With the purchase of Denmark's Mofibo, the Swedish
ebook and audiobook
subscription service Storytel has added
at least 50,000 members to its base of approximately 220,000 subscribers.
Unused credits expire
at the end of the month, but once downloaded,
ebooks can be read until the
subscription is cancelled.
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.
Millions of subscribers to Amazon's Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime programs can now borrow and «binge - read» all three
ebooks in one convenient set, as part of their
subscription fee — and
at no additional charge.
Yet within the industry, there are also those attempting to explore
subscription models, and in significantly different ways: Angry Robot offers its readers the opportunity to buy everything they publish over a six - or twelve - month period — a minimum of 12 or 24
ebooks —
at a discount of a third on the cost of buying each book individually.
Oyster was once one of the biggest
ebook subscription websites out there, but they have recently released a statement saying that they will be closing the doors and the staff will be moving on to better things (primarily, working
at Google).
I'm a fan of the
ebook subscription models as manifested by Oyster and Scribd because I think they complement conventional
ebook retail channels where readers purchase books one
at a time.
Mark Coker on Smashwords Amazon Lowers Kindle Unlimited Payouts «Last Friday in a bit of news that was missed by most indie authors, Amazon quietly announced that because they're pricing their Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription service
at $ 3.00 per month in India, authors will now earn less.»
There's been no official announcement from Amazon just yet, but there's a story
at Gigaom with very compelling evidence that Amazon is close to revealing a new service called Kindle Unlimited, an
ebook subscription service for $ 9.99 per month.
Byliner also publishes a series of original
ebooks, again
at a significant premium to the site
subscription though also available as part of that
subscription, (which are also published as Kindle Singles, Apple, Nook and Kobo
ebooks) some of which I have purchased and are well written and suit the form.
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.
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Penguin Random House «holds an effective veto on the success of
ebook subscription services,» says Peter Hudson
at Vancouver's Shelfie.
It'll be interesting to see how Amazon's
ebook subscription service differs (if
at all) from existing services like Scribd and Oyster.
The two key suggestions, neither of which has drawn any evident interest from the management
at PRH, were a program to supply non-bookstores with vendor - managed inventory (creating store retail accounts nobody else would have) and to create their own
ebook subscription service.
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eBook platform is refreshed with new and updated titles
at no additional charge, ensuring that your
subscription will always include our best selection of
eBooks.
A panel of images from a Kobo Plus video
at Bol.com demonstrates accessing
subscription ebooks on multiple devices.
Michael Cader
at Publishers Lunch is reporting that Kobo Writing Life (the self - publishing platform) terms and conditions have been updated to tell indie authors that they'll be paid from a monthly pool of overall
subscription income
at Kobo Plus, «based on reads — counted when a user has read «
at least 20 percent of the
ebook» — with each book's read pro-rated from the pool
at a rate of 60 percent of the list price.
Nathan Hull is Chief Business Development Officer
at Mofibo, Europe's success story in the world of
eBook subscription models, Nathan's role is to identify the markets in which Mofibo will roll out as well as establishing relationships with media, telco and hardware partners, and negotiating terms with publishers and authors.
Our new
ebook subscription service provides an even better answer to customers» frequent requests to have a large number of books available
at an attractive price, including bestsellers.
If your
ebook is in KDP Select (meaning it is exclusive to Amazon for
at least 90 days) then it is automatically included in Kindle Unlimited which allows readers to borrow and read it as part of Amazon's new
subscription based program.
Despite the lack of proof how 60 % royalties will turn out to be,
at least this additional source of income from Oyster's monthly
subscription will generate buzz for indie author's
eBooks.
Publisher made Korean
ebooks are priced
at around 10000 won (8.8 USD) individually, but Kyobo also offers a
subscription service with discounts.
The three most outstanding picks of today's blog covers Amazon's operation outside the virtual realm, a new ad - based
eBook subscription service, and an indie authors» lessons on organizing their own event
at a book festival.
Ebook subscription service Scribd has gone back to «unlimited» access to
ebooks and audiobooks for subscribers two years after ditching its original unlimited deal and capping members
at three
ebooks a month plus one audiobook.
And for those of you who can't get enough of the
subscription model (or you hate it or you love it or just want to learn more), on June 11
at Noon Eastern I'm participating in a webinar debate about
subscription ebook services produced by Digital Book World.
So in 2016, more authors will come to recognize that the industry's largest
ebook subscription service is
at once lowering author payouts and commoditizing books.
In October 2013, Scribd introduced a monthly
ebook subscription service that provides users across multiple platforms with all - you - can - read
ebooks at a set per month price.
«Amazon launches its
ebook subscription service «Kindle Unlimited» in Canada and Mexico» by Paul Sawers
at VentureBeat — February 12, 2015
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.
Amazon has extended its Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription service to India
at a bargain price but is warning authors that its pay - per - page system will need to be amended eventually for
ebooks borrowed in the Indian market.
Officials
at Amazon believe
subscription - based
ebook consumption is an inevitability, and will continue to invest in and build the company's Kindle Unlimited service as part of an effort to stay ahead of the emerging trend, Russ Grandinetti, senior VP, Kindle,
at Amazon explained during a candid general session interview on January 14
at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2015.
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