One of the most talked about developments in eBooks this week was the partnership of HarperCollins and Scribd to sell
eBooks on a subscription basis.
Simply put, Kindle Unlimited is a program run by Amazon where Kindle subscribers who pay a monthly fee can download
ebooks on a subscription basis.
Also check out the deals with we on purchasing good
ebooks on a subscription basis.
Not exact matches
As mentioned previously, in the section
on subscription based ebook pricing models, pay per use models usually pay publishers a pre-set rate.
3) You don't think there should be any force that determines a good book or a bad book but the public 4) You have built a company
based on submitting user generation content to all major online bookstores, libraries and
eBook subscription sites.
Additionally, she briefly discussed future plans for a
Subscription -
based licensing of
ebooks, as well as the recently launched initiative to license select titles to classrooms
on a one - year time frame.
Where most
subscription based ebook services focus
on non-fiction titles, Booxl intends
on catering to various Fiction genres.
While there are already sites that exist to loan
ebooks, including some that use a Netflix - like freemium model for
subscriptions, Bilbary's plans for
ebook rental are to cut out the commitment by simply loaning books
on a per - rental fee
basis.
It is easy for
ebook pirates to purchase a retail copy and use programs such as Calibre to strip the Adobe DRM and make it available
on Torrent sites, forums or even underground
subscription services that have fully functional Android apps to read the content or sophisticated web
based readers.
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.
The concept of advertisements in
ebooks is not new, and there are entire
subscription models
based on tolerating or eliminating ads.
The intention is to offer thousands of
eBooks available to read
on a monthly
basis for a annual
subscription fee.
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.
The service has 250,000 audiobooks available for download
on an ad - hoc or
subscription basis, but one proviso of the integration is that customers buy both the
ebook and the audiobook of the same book.
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.
«Our offer consists of merging a
subscription -
based model with the possibility to purchase and own
ebooks, because a portion of the paid amount is deposited
on users» accounts in the form of an advance to use in future
ebook purchases.»
SCRIB»D — One of the lesser - known
eBook platforms that works
on a
subscription basis.
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.