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.
Self - publishing pioneer Smashwords has set out details of earnings for authors who sign up for the firm's new link
with ebook subscription service Oyster.
Smashwords signed a distribution agreement
with eBook subscription service Scribd last December.
It's rare that Amazon isn't leading the charge in some aspect of the book industry, but news came out today that Amazon is experimenting
with ebook subscription models.
We have seen this transpire
with eBook subscription services and getting involved in digital libraries.
Meaning even if we never get color e-Ink screens, if publishers never experiment
with eBook subscriptions, and interactive eBook formats never succeed, we will still see digital get close to $ 3 billion in size by the middle of the decade.
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.
That's why we are offering a free
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With the hoopla over new
eBook subscription plans people forget that Amazon currently has the largest
eBook subscription plan.
Publishers may offer
ebooks at a discount
with an annual
subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles
with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled discounts.
With subscription services gaining popularity, voracious readers can now consume dozens of
eBooks for a low monthly fee.
According to the British PA, consumer
ebook sales rose 134 per cent in 2012, reaching # 216million,
with total digital sales up 66 per cent to # 411million (encompassing
ebooks, audiobooks downloads and online
subscriptions).
Scribd is a company that used to abide by the unlimited
subscription model
with audiobooks and
eBooks, but in recent years, they have scaled back.
As
ebook subscription models continue to gain ground
with consumers, keeping a student - centric model in motion through classrooms instead of only through private consumer
subscriptions seems to be the smarter approach.
Interestingly, the image only alludes to 600,000 titles available in the Amazon catalog, not the full
ebook catalog, which could mean that Amazon would have the same problem
with acquiring content for lending that has plagued the
ebook subscription model since it first became news back in 2010.
In the six years since Trip Adler created a startup called Scribd, something incredible happened for digital publishing and
ebooks: publishers finally found models they can work
with to support
ebook subscription - based reading.
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StreetLib has a partnership
with Perlego, a
subscription eBook platform that gives readers access to over 90,000 professional and academic books.
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.»
At the $ 50 tier, the magazine
subscriptions kick in,
with eBooks and download access to the previous two years, as well as their adult line Cherry Bomb becoming available.
«We are excited to partner and innovate
with F+W Media in leveraging iPublishCentral to create
subscription based
eBook clubs around their vertical communities,» said Sameer Shariff, CEO, Impelsys.
The Star,
with its four - month fledging Star Dispatches program, is the first in Canada to bring in a
subscription model for
ebooks.
The Toronto Star is testing the
ebook market
with a dedicated
subscription model — something no other newspaper in Canada has tried yet.
Rather than luring consumers
with a model that affords them the ability to read mountains of content for one price, Rooster's clientele is expected to read serialized and novella - length works for far less than the cost of a typical
ebook subscription plan.
Not only could you now buy
eBooks with the Kobo device, but you could also purchase magazines and newspaper
subscriptions.
Now,
ebook subscriptions are growing in popularity,
with readers and publishers alike.
With so many libraries offering ebook lending and with giants like Amazon offering lending through the Prime membership, it may take readers a while to adapt to subscriptions for bo
With so many libraries offering
ebook lending and
with giants like Amazon offering lending through the Prime membership, it may take readers a while to adapt to subscriptions for bo
with giants like Amazon offering lending through the Prime membership, it may take readers a while to adapt to
subscriptions for books.
One the most elusive models in digital publishing has to be
subscription - based
ebooks,
with companies around the world all seeking to be the Netflix or Spotify of reading.
Smashwords joined up
with OverDrive to make indie authors» titles available in libraries around the world, and Simon & Schuster provided access to a massive backlist of
ebooks to two of the top
subscription - based reading platforms.
Given his experience
with subscription ebooks through Safari Books, O'Reilly explained where some of the reluctance to adopt even the current models comes from.
Librify, which started beta testing
with select users in March, offers a social -
subscription service for
eBooks.
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.
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This doesn't seem to be a popular sentiment at the moment, but I believe 2015 will bring
with it the demise of the broad - based
subscription model for
ebooks.
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.
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.
They've got the Paperwhite 3 marked down to $ 99
with free shipping, and it comes
with a Caseable photo case and a voucher for three months of Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's
ebook subscription program.
The force of
Ebooks IS with me as I aggregate my collection of over 100 short stories and flash fiction pieces from my 4 - year - old e-mail subscription short fiction Web site http://www.LongShortStories.com into my first of several e
Ebooks IS
with me as I aggregate my collection of over 100 short stories and flash fiction pieces from my 4 - year - old e-mail
subscription short fiction Web site http://www.LongShortStories.com into my first of several
ebooksebooks.
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.
As the revolution in streaming anime took off this year, I think
ebook manga could seriously take off
with a
subscription service.
Also check out the deals
with we on purchasing good
ebooks on a
subscription basis.
Legimi is the largest
ebook subscription service in Poland and the company has ironed out an agreement
with Pocketbook to include support for their entire
ebook catalog for paid subscribers.
This
eBook solution includes a comprehensive
subscription for both digital content and in - library hardware, along
with apps for borrowing and reading, providing libraries
with a simple and turnkey system for participating in the digital revolution.
In additions to
ebooks, there are newspaper and magazine
subscriptions available for the Nook,
with more being added each week, claims B&N.
Storia offers both school - wide and classroom
subscriptions to
eBook libraries,
with unlimited and simultaneous access from most devices
with an internet connection.
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.
eBook subscription models have taken off in the past year, despite having digital roots extending back as far as 2010
with companies like Spain - based 24Symbols.
More than a quarter of the roughly 15,000
ebooks available in Czech are on the newly launched Bookport
subscription platform,
with more titles coming.
It's a complicated landscape out there in terms of libraries providing popular e-books — a lot of infrastructure costs
with OverDrive, copyright issues over multiple downloads for Amazon Kindle and the like, and oldish materials on our TexShare NetLibrary accounts that you can't download anyway (I am only referring to the
ebook subscription here, not the e-Audiobook
subscription).
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Subscription Services Many subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distri
Subscription Services Many
subscription platforms work with existing publishers to distri
subscription platforms work
with existing publishers to distribute
ebooks.