The only reason I truly care is that because of Amazons $ 10
a month subscription ebook service, they've singed quite a few of my favourite authors to exclusive distribution.
Not exact matches
Playster is a digital entertainment
subscription service that includes
ebooks, similar to Scribd, Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program, and the now - defunct Oyster: for $ 9.95 a
month, you can access what Playster advertises as a library of more than 250,000 «premium titles» — «the world's only truly unlimited
ebook service» (source).
Entitle Christian, as the service is called, allows its members to download up to four books per
month depending on the pricing option they choose; unlike typical
subscription models, this one serves as more of a book club of sorts, as the
ebooks do not disappear after a predetermined amount of time.
Amazon has announced that it is giving away six
months worth of free access to their
eBook subscription platform, Kindle Unlimited.
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.
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.
Oyster's
subscription plan costs $ 9.95 per
month and provides unlimited access to Oyster's catalog of
ebooks, which they now claim includes over one million titles.
The Star, with its four -
month fledging Star Dispatches program, is the first in Canada to bring in a
subscription model for
ebooks.
eReatah originally launched their Netflix for
eBooks subscription service back in September and changed their name to Entitle a few
months later.
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.
Scribd, the popular document sharing service, jumped into the ring earlier this
month with a slightly cheaper
ebook subscription service — $ 8.99 per
month — but an undisclosed number of books to read.
They've got the Paperwhite 3 marked down to $ 99 with free shipping, and it comes with a Caseable photo case and a voucher for three
months of Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's
ebook subscription program.
Second, if you enroll in KDP Select, your book will become available for free to readers who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited (the
ebook subscription service that costs $ 9.99 /
month), as well as the Kindle Owners» Lending Library.
Unused credits expire at the end of the
month, but once downloaded,
ebooks can be read until the
subscription is cancelled.
Over the years they unveiled an unlimited
ebook subscription service, suspended it and launched it again a few
months ago.
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 a long - expected move, Amazon on July 18 announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited, a new
subscription service that will give users unlimited access to a selection of 600,000
ebooks and more than 2,000 audiobooks on Amazon Kindle devices and any device with a Kindle app for $ 9.99 per
month.
With the advent of Amazon Prime and the ability to borrow a free
eBook every
month,
eBook subscription programs are being launched by a number of companies.
The new TED APP for iOS lets readers buy
eBooks for $ 2.99 each or you can take out a
subscription for $ 15 for a three
months.
Amazon's war on publishers reached a crescendo yesterday with the leak of Kindle Unlimited, a
subscription plan that would allow readers to pay $ 9.99 per
month for unlimited access to the Kindle
ebook library.
Amazon has expanded Kindle Unlimited over the past couple of years, their monthly
subscription service that grants unfettered access to a large catalog of
ebooks for $ 9.99 per
month.
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.
Amazon (s AMZN) has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, the $ 9.99 /
month ebook and audiobook
subscription service we told you about on Wednesday.
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.»
Previously Oyster only offered
ebooks through a monthly
subscription plan for $ 9.99 per
month.
Last November Scribd added audiobooks to their
ebook subscription plan, which costs $ 8.99 per
month to get unlimited access to Scribd's library of several hundred thousand
ebooks.
With Kobo launching their audiobook
subscription plan last week, where customers can get one audiobook per
month for $ 9.99, it has me thinking about how
ebooks and audiobooks are treated differently.
The way Kindle Unlimited works is you get unlimited access to all the
ebooks and audiobooks available through KU for as long as you pay the $ 9.99 per
month subscription fee, kind of like Netflix for
ebooks.
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.
In the six
months since its debut, the $ 14 million Oyster
ebook subscription platform has yet to take off.
An
ebook subscription service, available on any device including your Kindle: That appears to be what Amazon is planning, but is it worth $ 9.99 a
month?
Learning from past experience, the new
subscription program allows subscribers to «read as many
ebooks, magazine, newspapers, sheet music and audiobooks every
month they remain a subscriber.»
Amazon's service, which has been rumored for a couple of
months, would compete with existing
ebook subscription services Scribd and Oyster.
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.»
Public libraries were lending
eBooks and
subscription eBook libraries were opening for business — Oyster in September 2013, Scribd the following
month and Amazon's Kindle Unlimited in July 2014.
«Palatium Books, an
ebook subscription service based in Copenhagen, reached out to me last
month, and they mentioned that they saw my name through the Blueink Review.
Amazon
ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, is real and it's ready to help you consume an endless list of books for $ 9.99 a
month.
Neither Scribd nor Oyster divulge a great deal in the way of statistics, but in January, Scribd said that since the launch of the
subscription service in October 2013, the subscriber base has grown by an average of 31 % a
month, with readers spending over 17 million hours reading 500,000
ebooks.
As we all wait with bated breath for the 15th (or thereabouts) of the
month which will reveal August's borrow rate for
ebooks on Kindle Unlimited (my bet is on a range of $ 1.60 - $ 1.70), I thought I'd set out a few numbers I've crunched about the effects of the first couple of
months of Kindle Unlimited and the
ebook subscription business in general.
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.
The well established document - sharing service Scribd recently added an
ebook subscription service for $ 8.99 a
month.
The new move takes Scribd over the one million mark for the total of
ebooks it offers on its $ 8.99 a
month subscription service, which is available in the US and UK.
Oyster announced a couple
months ago they were exiting the
ebook subscription business, probably because they lacked the resources to make the model work.
Amazon will increase its fund for self - publishers agreeing to loan their
ebooks by $ 800,000 this
month, the retailer has confirmed, predicting an uptick in downloads with the launch of the Kindle Unlimited
subscription service.
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.
For example, Kluun's DJ would cost $ 9.99 to buy as an
ebook on Kobo, which is the same cost as a
month's
subscription to Kobo Plus.
Our
subscription model will allow a user to buy an
ebook reader for $ 1 along with a 24 -
month plan, will complement that offer.»
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