Sentences with phrase «of subscription book services»

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The service, which will offer 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks for a monthly fee of $ 9.99, takes aim at book subscription forerunners Oyster and Scribd.

GrooveBook is a subscription service that delivers users a monthly bound book of their smartphone - snapped photos for just $ 2.99 / month.

A # 10 per month premium subscription to music service Spotify effectively gives you instant access to the majority of the world's recorded music, while # 8 at Kindle Unlimited gets you 600,000 books and audiobooks.

That loss forced the closing of 15 libraries; reduced hours of service at almost every remaining location; cost more than 225 full - and part - time Library employees their jobs; took bookmobiles off the road for the first time since 1947 and decreased book, subscription and media purchases to a trickle.

If you're a Book of the Month Club member like me (read about my experience with the subscription service here and here), you can score the book for free with your month's selections using the code WATER at checkBook of the Month Club member like me (read about my experience with the subscription service here and here), you can score the book for free with your month's selections using the code WATER at checkbook for free with your month's selections using the code WATER at checkout.

Cadillac is diving into the world of premium subscription services with Book — a program that removes some of the minutiae of owning a car.

Starting today, authors with works in Draft2Digital's catalog of 50,000 + books can opt into Oyster's subscription service, Oyster Unlimited, which has more than a million titles in its library.

Adler will only say that his team estimates Scribd's subscription service offers 8 % to 10 % of all books sold in the United States.

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.

The subscription service operates on a fair - share model, with payouts funded by subscription revenues, which enables a self - sustaining service built for the long - term — encouraging publishers to offer a wide selection of books from all genres.

It didn't take long after the launch of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service for the outcry to begin, but unlike other criticisms the retail book giant has weathered, this one came from its most staunch supporters: self - published authors.

A pioneer of the all - you - can - read model, Scribd's subscriptions service allows readers to have unlimited access to more than 500,000 books from nearly 1,000 publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Open Road Media, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Rosetta, Workman, Wiley and Smashwords.

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.

Members of its subscription service listen to an average of more than 17 books per year, and membership has increased 40 percent annually.

That being said, when Amazon introduced the Fire for Kids tablet last year, it had a lot going for it, including its rubberized case, year - long subscription to Amazon's FreeTime — Amazon's service that offers a curated and locked - down catalog of games, apps, videos and books — as well as a two - year warranty.

Buy this tablet and you'll not only get an impressive 12 - hour battery, decent 8 - inch display and 32 GB of storage, but also a 12 - month subscription to the Fire For Kids service that packs in books and TV shows aimed at children.

This exclusive implementation of OptiQly will be available as a subscription within CoreSource, Ingram's digital asset management and distribution platform, beginning with clients of Ingram's distribution brands - Ingram Publisher Services, Perseus Distribution, Publisher's Group West and Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a time of triumph, it was a time of disaster, it was the publishing industry in 2014, just after mighty Amazon fired a new salvo in its war on traditional publishing by announcing its $ 10 / month Kindle Unlimited book subscription service.

While each generated some interest from publishers and consumers, it wasn't until the July 18 launch of Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's e-book subscription service, that pundits and media outlets began parsing what these new business models mean for the future of books.

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.

In the days before Amazon.com and digital books, there were two kinds of subscription services that worked for consumer books.

Amazon.co.uk today introduced Kindle Unlimited — a new subscription service which allows customers to freely read as much as they want from over 650,000 Kindle books and listen as much as they want to thousands of Audible audiobooks, all for only # 7.99 a month.

Titles from a variety of Harlequin imprints, including Harlequin Series Romance, HQN Books, MIRA Books and Carina Press, will be available through Scribd's $ 8.99 monthly subscription service.

Oyster is one of the leaders in the field of e-book subscription services, where users pay a low monthly fee and get access to thousands of digital books they can read at their leisure.

Last year Amazon introduced the Fire for Kids tablet and it had a lot going for it, including its rubberized case, year - long subscription to Amazon's FreeTime — Amazon's service that offers a curated and locked - down catalog of games, apps, videos and books — as well as a two - year warranty.

With the launch of the Windows app, paired with existing apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and Nook tablets, Scribd has been downloaded more than 6 million times — placing it on more devices in more countries than any other subscription book service.

A host of apps and subscriptions services have made magazines discovery in the app stores and virtual newsstands almost as much of a problem as it is for books.

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 are a service when you download the ebook from the library as part of your «subscription» to check the book out.

While there are subscription services like Oyster Books and Kindle Unlimited, a lot of these services haven't signed deals with the major publishers.

The Tolino Alliance, Germany's biggest Amazon competitor (with about 50 % of the book market share) has just announced the release of their new ebook subscription service: Tolino Select.

For all of us, there is the fact that ebook subscription services promote themselves as «a Netflix for books» even though the idea of «a Netflix for books» predates Netflix by many, many years, because that idea is a public library.

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.

Scribd (app, web) Scribd is monthly subscription service that gives users access to unlimited reading of books, audiobooks and comics for $ 8.99 a month.

The update includes the new Word Wise feature that automatically shows definitions to difficult words above the within text on compatible titles, as well as Family Library, which lets you access not only your own books, but also those of a spouse, partner or family member, and Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service starting at $ 2.99 per month that provides curated access to special selections for kids and beginner readers.

You don't normally expect to see your bestselling titles targeted for a purge, but thus is the new reality as subscription services learn to cope with popular books... It's a punch in the gut but doesn't change the fundamentals of our business.

Almost a year ago, I covered the Book Industry Study Group's release of a major evaluation of ebook subscription services here at The FutureBook.

Playster is a subscription - based service that allows readers to pay a low monthly fee for unlimited access to thousands of books (or movies, music, games).

Virtually all books that are out of copyright are already available for free across the internet at various sites in most formats and you can use several apps to convert them into the Kindle ebook format.I can not support any attempt by Amazon to start charging for books that are already free.I do support the concept of a subscription based ebook service however and encourage all publishers to enter into such an agreement as quickly as possible before they become completely irrelevant.

Last year, Scribd hit many milestones: They introduced content from all of the «Big Five» publishers to their subscription service and launched two new verticals — comic books and sheet music.

Oyster's subscription book service will continue to operate for the rest of the year, after which it will be shut down.

I may get around to buying the books and reading them eventually, perhaps used copies to save a few bucks, but if they were available right now on a subscription based service, I would go out and read them all within a few months because it would be easy and the ones I liked I would purchase new hard copies of.

While I don't think book subscription services will get the traction of music and video services, I do think the format may fuel a resurgence of people writing serials and introducing a new chapter or what I call a micro-book each month.

Then, in the summer of 2014, when Amazon introduced the subscription service Kindle Unlimited, I found this strategy no longer served my books as well as it had.

«We are very excited to take this step in expanding our subscription service beyond books,» said Trip Adler, co-founder and CEO of Scribd.

(AP)-- Amazon is rolling out a new subscription service that will allow unlimited access to thousands of electronic books and audiobooks for $ 9.99 a month in the online giant's latest effort to attract more users.

That's why it's $ 9.99 - a-month plan, similar in price to all - you - can - read ebook subscription services, offers unlimited access to its catalog of over 5,000 magazines, comic books, and ebooks.

«Since launching our subscription book service, our readers around the world have been asking for an app that worked with Kindle Fire,» said Trip Adler, CEO and cofounder of Scribd.

It's basically the same selection of books available with Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's ebook subscription service.