On Android since October, when users run out of free articles and hit the paywall, Facebook has opened a special
publisher subscription page within Instant Articles in Facebook's app, where customers complete the subscription transaction, and publishers keep 100 percent of the revenue.
Not exact matches
Another feature, the «Bookstore,» allows you to shop for books on grants and funding on Amazon.com, National Academy Press, Reiters, and Rittenhouse; and a «Journal Database» allows you to locate (and link to) drug abuse journals where you can get
subscription details and links to journal or
publisher home
pages.
Of course, the one company with the power to push back against the
publishers is Amazon, and I do think this episode gives additional color to Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's own
subscription program that, crucially, pays authors based on the number of
pages read.
As we have reported previously on multiple occasions, Amazon has been talking to
publishers about an ebook
subscription offering for some time now — and a cached version of a
page that was put up recently and then taken down confirms the basic details.
Marvel Unlimited, the comic book
publisher's all - you - can - read
subscription service, lets superhero fans
page through decades of Marvel Comics history for the price of a trade paperback per month.
On the poetry resources
page is to be found general writer's resources, online libraries and dictionaries, guides to style, rhetoric and grammar, plus leading sites for philosophy, literary theory and criticism, poetry teaching, book news, poetry
publishers and publishing advice, legal matters, electronic publishing, website hosting and access by
subscription libraries.
They've targeted magazine
publishers primarily and as such include facsimile layouts of magazine
pages and extensive functionality around advertising and
subscription management, both of which have been of limited interest to traditional book
publishers but are vital to magazine
publishers» business models.
Another reason that some retailers need to keep track of how much of a book has been read (if not who's read it) is that
subscription services like Oyster and ScribD pay the
publisher based on a percentage of the book that was read, while KindleUnlimited pays about half a penny per «
page.»
Publishers»
subscription losses in the past 10 years has resulted in substantial price increases so that a single volume of caselaw of approx. 400
pages now sells for over $ 300 and in some cases for $ 350.
This means Facebook is getting a sweetheart «deal» to pass on to
publishers because normally Apple forbids apps from including links to their
subscription checkout
pages to bypass the 30 percent tax.
On iOS thanks to the new agreement with Apple, when a user runs out of free articles and would hit the paywall, Facebook tells me it will load the
subscription page on the
publisher's mobile website instead of in Instant Articles.