Year 2020 may be remembered as a pandemic year, but it may also be remembered as the year when ebooks made a breakthrough to the mass market … Read the story...
Bookstores report strong growth for ebooks as people are staying home
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Key trend: publishers are making readers pay for news in 2020s
Reuters Institute has published a survey on news business that highlights the key trends for 2020. Overall, the results don’t feature any dramatic surprises, but rather reinforce the … Read the story...
Scribd provides digests of nonfiction books for readers who have subscription
Scribd is an online ebook service that lets people read as many books as they have time to (certain restrictions apply)after they have paid a monthly subscription fee. The difference between this service and many other book subscription services is … Read the story...
Paywall business model for news doesn’t match readers’ expectations in the long run
A report titled Pay Models for Online News in the US and Europe: 2019 Update published in April 2019 by the Reuters Institute indicates that the number of newspapers that charge for access to their online news is slowly increasing. … Read the story...
Ebook news digest: podcasts for writers, future of news reporting, ebook service with 1 million paying customers
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Scribd has more than one million paying subscribers for ebooks
Scribd is a service that lets you read ebooks, listen to audiobooks, and read some magazines for a monthly fee of 9 dollars. I … Read the story...
Ebook news digest: tips for aspiring writers, Instagram book deal, ebook subscription success
Ebook news digest July 24, 2016
8 things I wish I’d known before writing my first novel (Marie Claire)
Author Kate Mosse shares a few tips for aspiring writers, and although her tips focus on novels, they are … Read the story...
Online media subscription service Playster bundles ebooks, music, movies and games
After Netflix hit the big time with online movie subscriptions and Spotify made online music available at low or no cost to listeners, the book industry has been looking for a similar solution. Is it possible to create a low-cost … Read the story...
Black Friday deal on an ebook subscription service
Ebook subscription services that let you read as much as you have time for a monthly fee are pretty affordable. The market price is around 10 dollars or euros for one month worth of reading. If one of the services … Read the story...
Book Subscription Service Oyster Opens a Bookstore for Ebook Downloads
Oyster, an online service that lets you read as many books as you have time for a monthly fee of $10, has opened a bookstore where ebooks can be downloaded for offline reading. Oyster doesn’t tell how many books it … Read the story...
Amazon Kindle Unlimited Is the Number One Ebook Subscription Service, but Which One Is Number Two?
We all know that Amazon is the largest retailer of ebooks in the world, but which online book subscription service has managed to attract the most customers? Amazon was the pioneer of ebook retail business, but it wasn’t the first … Read the story...