Oyster and Scribd are currently leading the way
in subscription ebooks, and Scribd's CEO Trip Adler had this to say about Amazon's potential move into the subscription sphere:
Additionally, the main competitor
in the subscription eBook model, Oyster, has gone out of business.
Kindle Unlimited is a program created by Amazon in July 2014 to compete
in the subscription eBook market.
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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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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.
As mentioned previously,
in the section on
subscription based
ebook pricing models, pay per use models usually pay publishers a pre-set rate.
According to the British PA, consumer
ebook sales rose 134 per cent
in 2012, reaching # 216million, with total digital sales up 66 per cent to # 411million (encompassing
ebooks, audiobooks downloads and online
subscriptions).
«From the very first day, Kobo Plus was the largest and widest
ebook subscription in the Netherlands and Belgium, and thanks to good cooperation, we grown every week since then.
«A one - year
subscription to Storia School Edition grants a school access to a carefully curated library of 2,000 well - known fiction and nonfiction
ebooks for Pre-K-Grade 6,» the company stated
in a press release.
Scribd is a company that used to abide by the unlimited
subscription model with audiobooks and
eBooks, but
in recent years, they have scaled back.
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.
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.
Some publishers like to keep their name under the radar, but to name a few: Verso Books (US, UK), Cappelen Damm (largest publisher
in Norway), Elly's Choice (largest
eBook subscription service
in The Netherlands), Firsty Group (large solutions provider for the publishing industry
in the UK), Profile Books (UK); web shops from Finland to Spain and from Peru to Colombia.
Scholastic, the award - winning powerhouse
in children's publishing, made a announcement today that their
ebook reading app Storia would be closing, making way for a bigger focus on its Storia School Edition
subscription reading program.
We have seen this transpire with
eBook subscription services and getting involved
in digital libraries.
It's rare that Amazon isn't leading the charge
in some aspect of the book industry, but news came out today that Amazon is experimenting with
ebook subscription models.
As
ebook subscription models continue to gain ground with consumers, keeping a student - centric model
in motion through classrooms instead of only through private consumer
subscriptions seems to be the smarter approach.
Interestingly, the image only alludes to 600,000 titles available
in the Amazon catalog, not the full
ebook catalog, which could mean that Amazon would have the same problem with acquiring content for lending that has plagued the
ebook subscription model since it first became news back
in 2010.
In the six years since Trip Adler created a startup called Scribd, something incredible happened for digital publishing and
ebooks: publishers finally found models they can work with to support
ebook subscription - based reading.
Kbuuk is an
eBook platform and
subscription service based
in Houston, Texas.
Kindle Unlimited is not the only player
in the
ebook subscription service game right now.
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.
Launch plan to include seven more niche consumer sites by end Q2 NEW YORK — March 29, 2012 — F+W Media, Inc. today announced the launch of the first
in a series of
eBook Subscription Sites created specifically for enthusiasts.
There's a more expanded report on the ramifications of these
eBook lending programs
in the January issue of Infinity's Author's Advocate — if you aren't a subscriber, you may sign up for a free
subscription by visiting www.infinitypublishing.com.
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.
Much of the digital money for authors
in Denmark is from Mofibo, the
ebook subscription company where I work.
«We are excited to partner and innovate with F+W Media
in leveraging iPublishCentral to create
subscription based
eBook clubs around their vertical communities,» said Sameer Shariff, CEO, Impelsys.
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.
The report by Engel found that,
in the case of Kindle Unlimited and other
ebook subscription services, the book prices are set not by the publishers, but by the
subscription service — therefore violating the Lang Law.
On Thursday, France's Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, announced that Kindle Unlimited (KU) and other unlimited
ebook subscription services are illegal
in France because they violate the country's fixed book price law.
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.
Subscriptions are offered
in the children's
ebook area as well.
The Star, with its four - month fledging Star Dispatches program, is the first
in Canada to bring
in a
subscription model for
ebooks.
The Toronto Star is testing the
ebook market with a dedicated
subscription model — something no other newspaper
in Canada has tried yet.
In the end, the Reader store needs to lower
eBook prices, build community, open a proper
subscription based book club, expand into foreign markets and leverage their name brand as a primary mover of growth.
eReatah originally launched their Netflix for
eBooks subscription service back
in September and changed their name to Entitle a few months later.
In other attempts to launch
subscription - based
ebook platforms, some of the major hurdles involved the pricing and compensation.
Now,
ebook subscriptions are growing
in popularity, with readers and publishers alike.
Many luminaries
in the publishing industry are going to talk about the merits of
eBook subscription services.
So, if
eBook subscriptions have reached the fundamental inflection point of consumer interest and buy -
in from the leading content providers, how can they learn from and thus avoid the past tribulations of Scribd and their contemporaries?
One of the most interesting aspects is the growth of the emerging
eBook subscription models, such as Nubico
in Spain, Scoobe
in Germany, Youboox
in France, Oyster
in the US.
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.
One the most elusive models
in digital publishing has to be
subscription - based
ebooks, with companies around the world all seeking to be the Netflix or Spotify of reading.
The real benefit of
eBook subscription services is the capacity to aggregate a critical mass of frontlist content for users from a diverse mix of the best publishers
in the world.
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.
Oyster is one of the few companies
in the world that has been a
subscription based
eBook service actually work.
Scribd has only been offering their
eBook subscription platform
in October and already they are massing a treasure trove of data.