Here Come the Buffet Readers
For me it’s not the compensation issue, actually. I’m more concerned about how literature of all genres (don’t get sidetracked here, I mean all books) fare on the buffet. The post Here Come the Buffet...
View ArticleSubscriptions: What If All The Fitness Club Members Actually Come To The Gym?
If I had a dollar for every time I had seen a pitch for a subscription-based ebook platform, I would by now have launched my own. And right about now, you could be forgiven for feeling that The...
View Article#FutureChat recap: A busy workout in the subscription debate
“There is much to unpack here.” That line from The Bookseller’s Philip Jones in his lead editorial Friday may have been the understatement of the week. Articles and essays, blog posts and comments...
View ArticleVote on The FutureBook Innovation Shortlist’s “Inspirationals”
The winner will be named as part of The FutureBook Innovation Awards announcements at The FutureBook Conference on 14th November at Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. (Best early-bird prices for the...
View ArticleAt Frankfurt Book Fair: ‘Surprise’ support for subscriptions
As my Bookseller colleague Philip Jones is writing for us today in Turn up the volume, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 provided, if nothing else, a look at digital now under sail in early, calm waters. He...
View ArticleDo you subscribe to subscriptions?
Many young, digitally oriented companies enjoy taking a specific kind of staff photo these days, I’m sure you’ve seen it. In such a photo, everyone is happily gregarious but individualised. Several...
View ArticleAll-you-can-guess about subscriptions
Publishing can be forgiven for its mixed response to the ebook-subscription issue. Not only does the all-you-can-read construct for selling books run contrary to traditions in bookselling — and reading...
View ArticleScribd makes cuts to romance in its catalog
Scribd has announced to publishers and distributors that it is “making some adjustments, particularly to romance” in its $8.99-per-month ebook subscription service. Described by Mark Coker, founder and...
View Article‘Growing pains': Scribd’s romance ‘purge’
Mark Coker: Smashwords’ Scribd sales may ‘drop at least 50 percent’ Coming in the context of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select’s controversial new per-page paymentsin its Kindle Unlimited...
View ArticleCan subscriptions take the heat?
‘A long day. Full of complete and utter nonsense.’ That’s the author Hugh Howey writing about Wednesday (1st July), when Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select payout structure officially...
View ArticleSubscriptions, ‘know your readers’
Last August in his two-part essay for us here at The FutureBook, “On streaming, subscription, and big data,” CyberLibris’ Eric Briys (pictured) wrote of “understanding reader frustration.” Briys...
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What Canada’s Shelfie Data Suggests About Ebook Subscriptions
Penguin Random House ‘holds an effective veto on the success of ebook subscription services,” says Peter Hudson. His Canadian startup Shelfie has the data behind the observation. Image – iStockphoto:...
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