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...
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Category: Subscriptions
Cengage Launches an e-Textbook Subscription Service
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...
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Tolino Launches a Very Limited eBook Subscription Service, Tolino Select
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...
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Wattpad Launches Paid Subscription Service
Wattpad continues to struggle to overcome its mistake in its early years when it choose to build its platform but not its business model. The author-focused social network has...
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Penpee.com
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...
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SNCF’s New eBook Subscription Service Validates the Kindle Unlimited Model
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...
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ComicBlitz Launches “All-You-Can-Read” Digital Comics Service
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...
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Disney to Offer eBooks, Classic Disney + Pixar films, Music for £10/Month
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...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Launches Over-Priced Subscription Service For Kid-Friendly Content
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. Curious World is a $10...
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Oyster Shucks Its Streaming eBook Service, Team Aqui-Hired by Google
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...
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eBookids Wants to Be a Netflix for eBooks for Kids
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...
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Bookmate Launches in Indonesia
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 markets rife with piracy, Bookmate's...
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Bookmate Partners with Tigo Mobile in Paraguay and Guatemala
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 Paraguay and...
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Amazon Launches an Audible Unlimited Service in Japan
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...
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Streaming eBook Service Skoobe Gains Support for the Illumina eReader
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...
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