Sentences with phrase «of subscription ebook services»

I think history will show that the new breed of subscription ebook services like Scribd will grow the number of readers who are enjoying and consuming ebooks.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

With subscription services gaining popularity, voracious readers can now consume dozens of eBooks for a low monthly fee.

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.

Scribd has lined up a treat for owners of the Kindle Fire range of tablet devices; the company's online ebook subscription service which has now been extended to include to the Kindle Fire tablets.

eBook subscriptions services are making headlines right now, especially following the launch of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program.

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.

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.

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.

There are a number of eBook subscription services available, and understanding the benefits and costs of each may help you determine where to align your eBooks.

Several apps encourage children as creators too, and personalization is one of the trends that we'd expect to see... So far we haven't yet seen an eBook subscription service for families or for schools that's really caught on the UK, but there are a number of contenders and it will be interesting to see if one of them breaks through.»

The biggest and most influential promotion service, Bookbub.com, is a subscription service that sends email to millions of readers about eBook specials.

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.

I tracked down 19 different subscription services for ebooks, most of them now out of business.

Travis Alber of Read Social moderated a session on ebook subscription services.

Many luminaries in the publishing industry are going to talk about the merits of eBook subscription services.

Again, being compared to Netflix and Spotify, Mofibo plans to be an ebook subscription service to serve the needs of Denmark's reading customers.

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.

Now that the concept of ebooks and digital reading is firmly solidified for the industry, more and more publishers are accepting the invitations of a growing number of ebook subscription services.

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.

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.

Today, ebook subscription service Scribd and Smashwords announced a venture that will put more than 225,000 ebooks into the subscription catalog, letting more than 70,000 authors» works be accessed by members of Scribd's service.

Oyster is one of the few companies in the world that has been a subscription based eBook service actually work.

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.

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.

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.

There are a number of eBook subscription services available, and understanding the benefits and costs of -LSB-...]

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.

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.

«While the publishing world's US subscription players (Oyster, Scribd, and Kindle Unlimited) remain everyone's favorite punching bags — and as Spotify vs. Apple Music vs. Tidal splinters the user experience in the music world — ebook subscription services across Europe such as Mofibo (Scandinavia), Nubico (Spain), Skoobe (Germany) have to navigate unnecessarily complicated waters, constantly justifying their own positions and dodging the looming tar brush that «subscriptions are bad news» — all because of the actions of others.»

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.

Question: Where do you prefer to read eBooks: on your Kindle, Nook, desktop computer, on an app on your smartphone or tablet, through a subscription service, or several of the above?

With the purchase of Denmark's Mofibo, the Swedish ebook and audiobook subscription service Storytel has added at least 50,000 members to its base of approximately 220,000 subscribers.

It has a bunch of integrated features, including Whispersync for Voice to read audiobooks aloud, and Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's ebook subscription service.

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.

During the last year, SkyInk has assembled a small portfolio of authors and is now launching a new ebook subscription service.

The new ebook subscription service, Booxl, makes wild claims of being the next Spotify or Netflix for the literary enthusiast.

Shebooks is a short - form ebook service that offers stand - alone sales and subscription reading of their select titles.

Storytel is launching their first e-reader this summer and it is the first device of its kind that is directly tied into an ebook subscription service.

Today on the show we talk about the aggressive international expansion of publishers into the Chinese Market and various eBook subscription services.

We have updates on what eBook subscription service is the best and discuss the content side of things.

INscribe Digital's industry leading technology provides access to an ever - growing list of retailers, libraries, and eBook subscription services, including over 250 retailers and 20,000 libraries.

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.

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.

Public Library Online currently makes ebooks available to libraries through its subscription service from a wide variety of publishers.

Whereas unlimited magazine subscriptions make sense in terms of the quick consumption of the issue, ebook subscribers felt the pinch of paying for a service and then not having time to truly take advantage of the unlimited nature of it.