Subscriptions

Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate, Funding Pool Jumped in November 2017

19 December, 2017 // 2 Comments

Amazon's payout for Kindle Unlimited rose for the fourth straight month in November, and so did the funding pool. Amazon paid out $19.8 million (up from $19.7 million in October 2017), plus [Read More ...]

Cengage Launches an e-Textbook Subscription Service

6 December, 2017 // 1 Comment

Thanks to textbook publishers pricing themselves out of the market, textbook sales have about a snowball's chance in Animal Farm of surviving the digital transition. Cengage's solution is to launch [Read More ...]

Tolino Launches a Very Limited eBook Subscription Service, Tolino Select

7 November, 2017 // 5 Comments

This got little attention in the English-language press, but Tolino launched a new marketing effort last month at Frankfurt Book Fair. It is being likened to Kindle Unlimited, but Tolino Select is [Read More ...]

Penpee.com

24 February, 2017 // 6 Comments

Buried in the buzz for Wattpad Tap, Hooked, and Amazon Rapids lies a small UK startup called Penpee. This startup describes itself as a "Netflix for short stories". Creators can publish stories [Read More ...]

SNCF’s New eBook Subscription Service Validates the Kindle Unlimited Model

5 November, 2015 // 3 Comments

In September of last year the French Railway SNCF launched a free digital library where passengers could read short public domain works with reading times ranging from 15 minutes to an hour long. [Read More ...]

ComicBlitz Launches “All-You-Can-Read” Digital Comics Service

1 November, 2015 // 3 Comments

Here's a story I missed from New York ComicCon last month. Following a year of development and three months of beta testing, ComicBlitz launched its subscription comics service at NYCC last month. [Read More ...]

Disney to Offer eBooks, Classic Disney + Pixar films, Music for £10/Month

22 October, 2015 // 1 Comment

HMH wasn't the only publisher to announce a subscription service yesterday. Disney has announced plans to launch a Netflix-like in the UK and Europe. The service, DisneyLife, will cost £10 and [Read More ...]

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Launches Over-Priced Subscription Service For Kid-Friendly Content

21 October, 2015 // 2 Comments

Evidently pleased with its experiences in Scribd and Oyster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched its own competitor to kid-focused subscription services Amazon Freetime Unlimited and Epic. [Read More ...]

Oyster Shucks Its Streaming eBook Service, Team Aqui-Hired by Google

21 September, 2015 // 6 Comments

Any hope that streaming ebook services could be a serious alternative to Amazon were dashed today. Oyster has announced that it is celebrating the two-year anniversary of launching its service by [Read More ...]

eBookids Wants to Be a Netflix for eBooks for Kids

1 September, 2015 // 4 Comments

Between Oyster, Scribd, Epic, Meegenius, and Reading Rainbow, subscription ebook services are a dime a dozen in 2015. But eBookids thinks there's room for one more. Launched in mid-June, eBookids is [Read More ...]

Bookmate Launches in Indonesia

24 August, 2015 // 1 Comment

Only weeks after launching in Latin America, Bookmate expanded its presence in southeast Asia with a partnership with Indosat, Indonesia's second largest telecom. Best-known for focusing on [Read More ...]

Bookmate Partners with Tigo Mobile in Paraguay and Guatemala

4 August, 2015 // 2 Comments

Bookmate's long promised expansion into Latin America has commenced. The social reading service announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with a telecom, Millicom, to launch Bookmate's service in [Read More ...]

Amazon Launches an Audible Unlimited Service in Japan

26 July, 2015 // 6 Comments

The two-month-old reports that Amazon is going to launch an unlimited audiobook service in Germany are still nothing more than rumors, but the service which launched in Japan earlier this month is [Read More ...]

Streaming eBook Service Skoobe Gains Support for the Illumina eReader

22 July, 2015 // 3 Comments

For the longest time Amazon's Kindle Unlimited has had one unique advantage over its competition: it was the only streaming(*) ebook service that worked on an ereader with an E-ink screen. That [Read More ...]

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