Amazon has announced that it is giving away six months worth of free access to
their eBook subscription platform, Kindle Unlimited.
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.
Scribd has only been offering
their eBook subscription platform in October and already they are massing a treasure trove of data.
Scribd has just unveiled an ambitious enhancement to
their eBook subscription platform by including 30,000 audiobooks.
The first
ebook subscription platform has just launched in the Czech Republic from Grada Publishing.
To celebrate the momentous occasion,
ebook subscription platform is hosting a giveaway in which one winner will receive a twelve - month subscription to the unlimited reading service.
In the six months since its debut, the $ 14 million Oyster
ebook subscription platform has yet to take off.
Poor sales is another challenge that authors remain doubtful about switching to
the eBook subscription platform.
The Scribd deal follows rival
ebook subscription platform Oyster linking up with Smashwords recently.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Kbuuk is an
eBook platform and
subscription service based in Houston, Texas.
StreetLib has a partnership with Perlego, a
subscription eBook platform that gives readers access to over 90,000 professional and academic books.
Bookmate, a Russian
ebook subscription service, wants to attract English language publishers to its
platform to cater to developing markets.
If I had a dollar for every time I had seen a pitch for a
subscription - based
ebook platform, I would by now have launched my own.
Not to be outdone, Google is expanding on its Google
eBooks platform and soon will be offering newspaper and magazine
subscriptions for Android devices.
In other attempts to launch
subscription - based
ebook platforms, some of the major hurdles involved the pricing and compensation.
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.
Smashwords joined up with OverDrive to make indie authors» titles available in libraries around the world, and Simon & Schuster provided access to a massive backlist of
ebooks to two of the top
subscription - based reading
platforms.
While the original book club model may have fallen by the wayside,
subscription reading is seeing a comeback of sorts under the
ebook and long - form journalism
platforms.
Wait - aren't
ebook subscription services supposed to be an «all you can read»
platform?
Using a Netflix - like
subscription platform in which no books were actually downloaded to a computer or device, 24symbols would instead rely on Cloud - based content storage that allowed subscribers to access
ebooks on any web browser - enabled device.
ODILO's easy - to - use
eBook platform, quality content, and flexible lending models (One - Copy / One - User, Pay - per - Use, Simultaneous, and
Subscription) help schools and libraries better serve their students, educators, and families.
More than a quarter of the roughly 15,000
ebooks available in Czech are on the newly launched Bookport
subscription platform, with more titles coming.
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Subscription Services Many subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distri
Subscription Services Many
subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distri
subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distribute
ebooks.
By establishing distribution deals with not only all of the major
ebook retailers and a host of often overlooked, lesser known retail
platforms, Smashwords has also inked distribution deals with Scrib, Oyster, and OverDrive, giving indie authors the chance to put their works in
subscription - based and public library lending opportunities.
Today, emerging crossmedia business models, such as film / publishing company Cinestate and audiobook /
ebook subscription streaming service Storytel, and storytelling
platform oolipo, allow content creators to envision a new kind of world, uninhibited by format or borders.
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But this will only work if a library has a system set up in place to accept these types of donations, and if the
ebook lending
platform allows for you to buy specific books (instead of a Netflix - like
subscription where you don't get to pick individual titles).
Our
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.
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.
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.
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.
SCRIB»D — One of the lesser - known
eBook platforms that works on a
subscription basis.