Sentences with phrase «of ebook subscription models»

As the viability and future of ebook subscription models is debated in some parts of the world, Argentina's Grupo Vi - da has become a hub for community and title discovery that includes a subscription (Leamos), online sales (BajaLibros), library access (Bidi) and now a social network, Grandes Libros.

Nathan Hull is Chief Business Development Officer at Mofibo, Europe's success story in the world of eBook subscription models, Nathan's role is to identify the markets in which Mofibo will roll out as well as establishing relationships with media, telco and hardware partners, and negotiating terms with publishers and authors.

I'm a fan of the ebook subscription models as manifested by Oyster and Scribd because I think they complement conventional ebook retail channels where readers purchase books one at a time.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

ProQuest's ebooks businesses — ebrary ® and EBL ™ — are renowned for their breadth of content and flexible models including subscription, perpetual archive (purchase), demand - driven acquisition, and short - term loans.

The paper eventually backed out of the deal, but as it turns out, The Star was already working on a subscription model for ebooks that shied away from single - copy sales.

Rather than luring consumers with a model that affords them the ability to read mountains of content for one price, Rooster's clientele is expected to read serialized and novella - length works for far less than the cost of a typical ebook subscription plan.

Oyster's CEO had some welcoming remarks for the introduction of Amazon's service into the ebook subscription sphere, seeing the launch of KU as yet another sign that reading consumers are responding to this model.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The road has been admittedly bumpy for the eBook subscription service, but by ensuring a genuinely unlimited service through the avoidance of unsustainable royalty payment models, the concept may now finally see the success that the consumer demands.

Given his experience with subscription ebooks through Safari Books, O'Reilly explained where some of the reluctance to adopt even the current models comes from.

While other ebook subscription startups have been around for years, Oyster and Scribd have made the most headway with not only enticing readers into the benefits of their programs, but also in working with some publishers to put their titles in the catalogs with the most viable compensation models so far.

This doesn't seem to be a popular sentiment at the moment, but I believe 2015 will bring with it the demise of the broad - based subscription model for ebooks.

But it occurred to me that there may yet be some unexplored and promising territory for Big Pub, if they're willing to entertain an unorthodox idea: a subscription model of ebook content delivery.

Examining the Business Model of Ebook Subscription Services, Parts 1 and 2 — the second has its own headline, How Ebook Subscription Services May Redefine the Value of Books — are the lengthiest treatments of the subject I've seen.

Thinking about more of the product vs service model... ebooks CAN be a service if say Netflix started offing them or Pandora / yahoo, etc started lettin you read as part of your monthly subscription.

Since KU is a subscription model, users aren't buying a copy of an ebook.

On third use ebook subscription models which brings them ahead of the traditional publishers.

Still, it helps publishers and authors get a sense on the types of revenue is available on a Netflix subscription model for ebooks.

Today, Editor in Chief Michael Kozlowski and Senior Editor Mercy Pilkington talk for an hour about the Digital Book World Conference that transpired this week and discuss the business model of eBook Subscription websites, how Libraries are acting as retail... [Read more...]

One of the benefits to the subscriber libraries that comes from using a subscription model, at least at the onset of ebook lending, is it allows them to track patron usage, user interest, and overall lending data so that they can do a better job of applying their budgets to digital content.

I also believe that The Association of American Publishers in their survey are not taking into account the rise of the subscription ebook model, such as Scribd, Oyster, Entitle and Kindle Unlimited.

The concept of advertisements in ebooks is not new, and there are entire subscription models based on tolerating or eliminating ads.

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.

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.

Additionally, the main competitor in the subscription eBook model, Oyster, has gone out of business.

Nevertheless, Mike Shatzkin, the publishing insiders who has been in the industry for nearly 50 years, questions the eBook subscription citing the failure of cable TV and Audible business models.

I'd like the ability to sell technical ebooks in a sort of subscription model, letting customers download updated versions of the same ebook.

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.

But its subscription model that produced those numbers was for many years, and still is, in print, so I am not sure that applies to the topic of this blog post, which is about ebook subscriptions.

If a fiction model were devised for libraries, it would most likely follow the cartel bundling model: pay X amount of $ a year, get all the ebook versions of the bestsellers from Publishing House Y. Add a few extra 000s to that subscription price and they'll throw in their back catalog of midlist authors.

The «nearly 40 percent» includes the Howard - Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University, New Orleans, which forgoes the subscription model for acquiring ebooks and instead opts to purchase all ebook content outright.

The novelty of the subscription model for ebooks almost overshadows some of the more subtle but significant changes Oyster is trying to make to the e-reading experience.

For instance, there was that balder - than - usual statement of how an ebook subscription model might be economically sustainable from Mofibo c.e.o. Morten Strunge in Lasse Winkler and Johanna Westlund's report forThe Bookseller:

For some industry insiders, Scribd's apparently difficulty sustaining its subscription - based model for romance ebooks is a vindication of long - held skepticism.

Considering publicly available information that 25 % of best - seller titles are written by self - publishers, Nate of The Digital Reader comments on the eBook subscription model is nothing new since several publishers have already signed the deals.

Andrew Rhomberg, founder of Jellybooks, said that the eBook subscription model is a «strategic response» to Amazon.

Although it remains to be seen whether the eBook subscription model can predict the future of reading, next year's competition will be a phenomenon to watch due to enormous addition of new eBooks to be automatically fed into paid subscribers» devices.

«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.»

And for those of you who can't get enough of the subscription model (or you hate it or you love it or just want to learn more), on June 11 at Noon Eastern I'm participating in a webinar debate about subscription ebook services produced by Digital Book World.

Check out my two part blog series starting with my post, Examining the Business Model of Ebook Subscription Services.

However, Oyster is, of course, a much smaller operation than Amazon's Kindle and widening its business model to retail has got to be a good move with the uncertain and untried economics of ebook subscriptions.