As we have reported previously on multiple occasions, Amazon has been talking to publishers about
an ebook subscription offering for some time now — and a cached version of a page that was put up recently and then taken down confirms the basic details.
Though the Star sometimes describes the Dispatches as
an ebook subscription offering, what it has in fact created is a weekly longform magazine, or special report series, that's entirely funded by readers.
Not exact matches
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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.
Because I think something very valuable in terms of speculating about the future of serials has been left out — Scribd and Oyster and others
offering ebook subscription plans.
Draft2Digital will now
offer distribution to Oyster, an
ebook company best known for its leading
subscription service for
ebooks.
Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, the
ebook and audiobook
subscription service that lets members pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited access to its catalog, went live today,
offering users a thirty day free trial and the option to pay $ 9.99 a month for the service.
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.
This is unfortunate news for those readers who signed up for the
subscription ebook service last year, which
offered users a year of books released once per month.
Nubico is
offering a competitively priced
ebook subscription service for consumers, and an attractive royalty model for publishers.
The Streaming business area
offers subscriptions for audio books and
eBooks under the Storytel and Mofibo brands, currently in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, India, the UAE and Turkey.
They can drop DRM, sell
ebooks directly to readers, add or improve their
subscription services,
offer print - on - demand — any strategy, really, except continuing to insist that readers must accept high prices and restricted access.
Subscriptions are
offered in the children's
ebook area as well.
Not to be outdone, Google is expanding on its Google
eBooks platform and soon will be
offering newspaper and magazine
subscriptions for Android devices.
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.
With so many libraries
offering ebook lending and with giants like Amazon
offering lending through the Prime membership, it may take readers a while to adapt to
subscriptions for books.
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.
Billed as the Netflix of reading,
ebook subscriptions have kept a similar pricepoint — Oyster's is $ 9.95 a month for both the app - based and web - based option to read unlimited numbers of
ebooks — while trying to
offer compelling content.
Subscription - based
ebook reading is finally taking root, news and magazine apps have been optimized for smartphone and tablet consumption, and even browser - based scroller feeds
offer headlines and story teasers to consumers throughout the day.
Scribd has only been
offering their
eBook subscription platform in October and already they are massing a treasure trove of data.
Librify, which started beta testing with select users in March,
offers a social -
subscription service for
eBooks.
Oyster isn't exactly the first company to
offer subscription - based
ebooks.
Amazon
offers considerably more newspaper and magazine
subscriptions, and blogs and
ebooks too
We think our new
ebook subscription sites
offer a solution to both challenges.
Shebooks is a short - form
ebook service that
offers stand - alone sales and
subscription reading of their select titles.
This is the first time that Tolino has
offered an
ebook subscription program.
Storia
offers both school - wide and classroom
subscriptions to
eBook libraries, with unlimited and simultaneous access from most devices with an internet connection.
That's why it's $ 9.99 - a-month plan, similar in price to all - you - can - read
ebook subscription services,
offers unlimited access to its catalog of over 5,000 magazines, comic books, and
ebooks.
Amazon is in talks with several major publishers to
offer a
ebook subscription system for phones and tablets that is comparable to Netflix.
The intention is to
offer thousands of
eBooks available to read on a monthly basis for a annual
subscription fee.
Many
ebook marketers — especially those promoting «how to make your fortune online» market themselves through email and videos and
offer a range of services:
ebooks,
subscriptions, one - to - one counseling: clearly a full - time job in itself and not one that many writers would enjoy.
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.
This service will follow in the footsteps of 24Symbols, Skoobe, and others in
offering an all you can read type of
ebook subscription service.
The entire Wiley package,
offered as the Wiley SAE MOBILUS
eBook Package, and individual Wiley collections are available through annual
subscriptions.
This is the one service we found so far that
offers the option to keep some
ebooks even after a
subscription ends... supposedly.
And they needed authors who were willing to experiment with things like free promotions, bundling print and
ebooks, and
offering their books as part of
subscription services.
It is not the first, nor will it be the last start up to
offer ebooks under
subscription.
Also tolino select, the new
subscription model for
eBooks, which relies on a bookseller preselection and recommendation,
offers readers since October 2017 another reading service in the eco system of tolino.
The new Oyster
ebook store operates along side the
subscription service, and includes many titles that publishers won't
offer in the
subscription program.
Previously Oyster only
offered ebooks through a monthly
subscription plan for $ 9.99 per month.
Several companies have started
offering ebook subscription services, such as Oyster, Scribd and Entitle, over the past year; it was only a matter of time before Amazon got onboard with the idea as well — now if only they can convince some big - name publishers too (that's probably what's delaying the announcement).
As a tablet I think the fire
offers great usage for purposes other than
ebooks, and that having full functionality of apps, magazines and tv
subscriptions means that kids, and people who are not generally into reading are more likely to read more, as its the same piece of equipment that they have to carry to watch their movies, for parents its cheaper than an ipad or a galaxy.
There are models that
offer no specific items to download and hold on any device, models that
offer real - time content updates, models that
offer print plus
ebooks,
ebooks plus TTS audio,
subscriptions to
ebooks, and on and on and on.
Amazon (s AMZN) is testing an
ebook and audiobook
subscription service called «Kindle Unlimited» that
offers «unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $ 9.99 a month.»
The
ebook subscription service Scribd has just expanded its catalog
offerings with a mountain of audiobooks — 30,000, if you're counting.
There are a number of
ebook subscription services cropping up lately, but Scribd is the only one
offering audiobooks in addition to
ebooks, along with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited service.
Amazon is the biggest company
offering ebooks for a monthly
subscription rate.
Vearsa also gives your
eBook visibility on some of the biggest app stores in the world like the
subscription - based Playster digital streaming app, and Google Play, which reaches one billion android users in over 50 countries on multiple platforms, containing the world's largest ebookstore,
offering over 5 million
eBooks.
But before we move to highlights the most interesting
offers on devices, we'd like to share the fresh new deal on Kindle Unlimited
ebook subscription.
In the list below, you will find current deals on Kindle
ebooks, as well as information about special
offers on Amazon
subscriptions: Kindle Unlimited (
ebooks, comic books, magazines), and Audible (audiobooks).