Read on for a comparison of these top three
reader subscription programs and best recommendations for self - publishers who are looking to add these channels to their revenue streams.
Not exact matches
«The genesis of the «sponsor a
subscription»
program came directly from
readers who approached us with the desire to help support independent journalism and promote news literacy after the U.S. elections,» said Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of the Times.
While Facebook's
program will apparently use its internal Instant Articles section to entice
readers to subscribe, it will reportedly send
readers directly to publishers for
subscriptions, so Gingras» comments may not be entirely fair.
As part of my participation in the FOOD & WINE Blogger Correspondent
program, FOOD & WINE is giving away a year - long
subscription to a lucky
reader from Eating Bird Food.
The team at Cooking Planit has been so generous to give THREE of my
readers * FREE * one - year
subscriptions to the Meal Plans from Cooking Planit
program!
KDP Select also feeds into Amazon's Kindle Unlimited
program, which allows
readers to download eBooks from participating authors, as part of a monthly
subscription.
Readers in the Kindle
subscription program can read the book for free and you get paid for pages read.
The Globe is also looking to its
readers to guide its ebook
program, Saila says, but there are no immediate plans to roll out a
subscription - based
program.
Kindle Unlimited (KU) is a
subscription program that allows
readers with a membership to read as many enrolled books as they want.
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.
From the
reader's side, it works similarly to other
subscription programs.
Readers in the Kindle Unlimited
Subscription program.
Now, LeVar Burton, longtime host and executive producer of the
program, is venturing into the world of electronic juvenile reading with the launch of RRKidz, a
subscription - based digital library for iPad and key Android devices which will give young
readers access to hundreds of titles while being moderated for content appropriateness.
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.
The upshot is that it makes KOLL less attractive to fiction writers and it is fiction
readers that are considered the most voracious
readers and therefore more valuable to
subscription programs * like KOLL and Kindle Unlimited (KU).
If borrows get too low, authors will drop out of the
program and
readers will end their
subscriptions because there's nothing to read.
The greatest pro of KDP Select is considered to be Kindle Unlimited: your book is available as part of a
subscription program in U.S, U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia, and you'll be paid from a global fund based on how many pages your
readers have read.
Kindle Unlimited is a
subscription program for
readers that allows them to read as many books as they want.
If your ebook is in KDP Select (meaning it is exclusive to Amazon for at least 90 days) then it is automatically included in Kindle Unlimited which allows
readers to borrow and read it as part of Amazon's new
subscription based
program.
Bloomberg reported that publishers would keep 85 - 90 % of revenue when
readers first buy
subscriptions through the
program, as opposed to the 70 % they earned through
subscriptions via the Google Play Store.