This was always the direction that ebooks were going to go,
towards the subscription model.
Not exact matches
I think a lot of these business
models are moving
towards a higher percentage of
subscriptions, where the people who are getting the most value from you are contributing a disproportionate amount to the revenue.
«The future of the media industry will require a long - term program of reform to increase competition and dismantle protections that continue to skew investment away from innovative technology and
towards old business
models,» said Australian
Subscription Television and Radio chief executive Andrew Maiden.
So it seems that more companies are gravitating
towards an online
subscription model because that is where the advertising money is.
Perhaps it is a first step
towards developing a business
model (
subscription?
BOOKMATE (http://bookmate.com) offers a
subscription model for e-books directed
towards users in emerging markets where piracy issues are rife.
Booktopia chief executive Tony Nash said it was unsurprising that Amazon would move
towards a
subscription business
model, given its competition.
MP3s used to be DRMed as hell and now the market is gravitating
towards subscription based
models and DRM - free music downloads.
My preference at the moment is still for a
subscription model, which contrary to your opinion is something that not just MMOs but other service providers are moving
towards.
Due to this, while EA plans to keep offering its games through all the business
models that gamers want, they expect them to move
towards subscriptions as they have done in other industries.
There is more of a move
towards the Internet because you do have a little bit more freedom of choice, people do have — when it comes to television, they find they don't need 700 channels, they just need a handful of channels that they watch all the time and that they are willing to pay a monthly price for that, it's most of the time less than cable, and I think that's an interesting other notion that traditional services with the judicial pricing is fading out in favor of, and I think that that was another piece that Mary Meeker brought up, is the idea of the
subscription that
subscription services on the Internet are also kind of all the rage being able to subscribe to things that you receive on a regular basis, Office 365, Acrobat, they are all on
subscription services, a very
model of how we purchase these things is changing as well, and that's all due to the Internet.
I think a lot of these business
models are moving
towards a higher percentage of
subscriptions, where the people who are getting the most value from you are contributing a disproportionate amount to the revenue.