Travis Alber of Read Social moderated a session
on ebook subscription services.
It's a great eReader, but rather than hardware I'm hoping their working
on a eBook subscription service.
Yesterday Oyster announced on their blog that they will be closing the doors
on their ebook subscription service after just 2 years of being in business.
Not exact matches
Late
on Tuesday night, Amazon brought its all - you - can - eat
ebook subscription service called Kindle Unlimited to India.
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.
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.»
Owen also pointed out that HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher that has signed
on with Scribd, «just as HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher making its books available to Oyster or to another recently launched
ebook subscription service, eReatah.»
First, let us reflect
on last year's post,
Ebook Subscription Services are Doomed.
They can drop DRM, sell
ebooks directly to readers, add or improve their
subscription services, offer print -
on - demand — any strategy, really, except continuing to insist that readers must accept high prices and restricted access.
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.
They are approaching various publishers
on a Netflix style
ebook subscription service.
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?
Where most
subscription based
ebook services focus
on non-fiction titles, Booxl intends
on catering to various Fiction genres.
It is easy for
ebook pirates to purchase a retail copy and use programs such as Calibre to strip the Adobe DRM and make it available
on Torrent sites, forums or even underground
subscription services that have fully functional Android apps to read the content or sophisticated web based readers.
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.
He also talks about the illustrated book business is
on the decline and
eBook subscription services like Oyster and Scribd entering a boom period.
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.
Amazon (s AMZN) has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, the $ 9.99 / month
ebook and audiobook
subscription service we told you about
on Wednesday.
Thus given that such surveys are overly optimistic, a recent UK survey pours bucket loads of ice - cold water
on the economic attractiveness of
ebook subscription services for publishers.
Small libraries
on tight budgets unable to afford steep annual
subscriptions to other
ebook services can use Total Boox to bring
ebooks to their patrons without over-extending their budgets.
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.»
Our authors rely
on us to receive their completed manuscripts, format the content quickly into the most appropriate
eBook file formats and perfect print - ready files, and then upload and manage the listings
on all of their chosen retail, library and
subscription service distribution channels.
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.
Small libraries
on tight budgets unable to afford steep annual
subscriptions to other lending
services have the opportunity to bring
ebooks to their patrons without over-extending their resources.
On the subject of a
subscription service at iBooks, I don't have any knowledge of such a thing but they have gotten into
subscriptions in a big way with music, so a move into
ebook subscriptions wouldn't be such a stretch.
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?
By subscribing to
ebook services, libraries are more able to stay
on top of time - sensitive content; not only can they deliver up - to - date content to their patrons quickly, they can deliver a lot more of it via
subscription than they'd be able to if they purchased titles individually.
Penguin Random House «holds an effective veto
on the success of
ebook subscription services,» says Peter Hudson at Vancouver's Shelfie.
We're focusing this time
on comings and goings — as in two new
services that might be of use to our author - subscribers: Palatium is intent
on getting indies» books into
ebook subscription services in various parts of the world, while Books - A-Million has jumped into the self - publishing arena (which already was a bit crowded).
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.»
Penguin Random House «holds an effective veto
on the success of
ebook subscription services,» says Shelfie's Peter Hudson.
The
service has 250,000 audiobooks available for download
on an ad - hoc or
subscription basis, but one proviso of the integration is that customers buy both the
ebook and the audiobook of the same book.
The three most outstanding picks of today's blog covers Amazon's operation outside the virtual realm, a new ad - based
eBook subscription service, and an indie authors» lessons
on organizing their own event at a book festival.
Some revealing research by Publishers Marketplace shows that Amazon's
ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited, launched just one week ago, is already having a big effect
on the best - seller list.
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.
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.
The Smashwords link - up with
ebook subscription service Scribd has got off to a strong start, with early sales exceeding expectations and continuing to grow, and now showcasing indie authors
on the Scribd website front page.
Integrating all these various
subscription services and
ebook portals into a single library catalog that's easily searchable by students — a catalog that makes it clear where
on the physical bookshelves or
on mobile devices they'll be able to locate a title.
The latest move reflects the economic pressures facing
ebook subscription services where royalty payments
on borrows can outstrip the monthly
subscription.
A new report from best - selling author Hugh Howey's Author Earnings» survey suggests Amazon's
ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited has brought a major shake - up in the market and KU authors are making an average of 13 % more money per title
on Kindle than non-KU authors.
Officials at Amazon believe
subscription - based
ebook consumption is an inevitability, and will continue to invest in and build the company's Kindle Unlimited
service as part of an effort to stay ahead of the emerging trend, Russ Grandinetti, senior VP, Kindle, at Amazon explained during a candid general session interview
on January 14 at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2015.