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What Oyster going down demonstrates is not mostly about the viability of ebook subscriptions

September 23, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The news that the general ebook subscription offering Oyster is throwing in the towel was not really a surprise. The business model they were forced to adopt for the biggest publishers — paying full price for each use of a book with a threshold trigger at considerably less than a complete read while, at the […]

Filed Under: Atomization, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, rights, Scale, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: 24Symbols, Amazon, Android, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Borders, Carolyn Reidy, Entitle, Google, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Ingram, Ingram Internet Support Services, iOS, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, KU, Macmillan, New York Times, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Rakuten, Russell Grandinetti, Safari, Scribd, Simon & Schuster

The publishing world is changing, but there is one big dog that has not yet barked

August 5, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 112 Comments

Recent data seem to show that, for the publishers, the growth in the retail ebook market has slowed down or stopped (at least for the moment), while Amazon’s ebook sales apparently continue to grow. The share of the market controlled by the publishing establishment — the Big Five publishers and others — is starting to be […]

Filed Under: Atomization, Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Go Set A Watchman", "To Kill A Mockingbird", Amazon, Apple, Big Five, Donnelley, Google, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, Ingram, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, KU, Michael Cader, Nook, Oyster, Perseus, PRH, Scribd, United Artists

Subscriptions are in the news this week

July 24, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 16 Comments

Subscriptions for ebooks are certainly in the news this week. Amazon just announced their Kindle Unlimited offering, taking its place beside Oyster and Scribd as a “one price for all you can eat” Netflix- or Spotify-for-ebooks program. And the Book Industry Study Group has released a lengthy and fact-filled report from Ted Hill and Kate […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baen, Big Five, BISG, Book Industry Study Group, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hugh Howey, Kate Lara, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Unlimited, KU, Macmillan, Madeline McIntosh, Oyster, Penguin Random House, Publishers Lunch, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Ted Hill

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