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Amazon's Kindle Unlimited (KU) service, where readers pay $9.99 per month and authors are paid out of a monthly fund, seems to be very polarizing. Kindle Unlimited History When KU first launched, many authors complained about it, citing its unfair payment system or how it encourages people to upload short, and often not well written, books (since originally authors were only … [Read more...] about Indie Authors and Kindle Unlimited
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Taking a Closer Look at Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited
There has been a lot of buzz lately around Kindle Unlimited, the latest service to enter the ebook subscription game. But what out of all the subscription services  I'd say that this one is the biggest game changer, and that's because it's an Amazon service. After recently finishing Brad Stone's The Everything Store, I have a feeling that right now, Kindle Unlimited is more … [Read more...] about Taking a Closer Look at Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited
New Subscription Ebook Service: Forgotten Books
Ebook subscription services are slowly proving themselves. The three current major ones, Oyster, Scribd, and Entitle, are all growing, in both number of subscribers and number of books offered. And they are not the only services out there, as I outlined in my post, "A Brief Overview of Subscription Services" (The Digital Reader also wrote about Blloon, a new subscription … [Read more...] about New Subscription Ebook Service: Forgotten Books
A Brief Overview of Subscription Services
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I really think that 2013 (or at least the latter half) is the year for subscription e-books. Several high-profile services have launched recently, many of them touted as the "Netflix for e-books" or the "Spotify for e-books." I decided to do a little digging to see what other services where out there, and was surprised to find at least 29 e-book subscription services offered … [Read more...] about A Brief Overview of Subscription Services
Trends in Publishing (Part 3)
Part 3 of 3 of my Trends in Publishing post, which covers trends in metadata and collecting  publishing data. From the original post: "While researching my thesis project for my M.S. in publishing at NYU, I came across several interesting trends that I think will affect publishing. In fact, I've already seen some of these at work in the three months since I wrote the report, … [Read more...] about Trends in Publishing (Part 3)
Trends in Publishing (Part 2)
Part 2 of 3 of my Trends in Publishing post, which covers subscription websites and gamification trends. From the original post: "While researching my thesis project for my M.S. in publishing at NYU, I came across several interesting trends that I think will affect publishing. In fact, I've already seen some of these at work in the three months since I wrote the report, and … [Read more...] about Trends in Publishing (Part 2)
Trends in Publishing
While researching my thesis project for my M.S. in publishing at NYU, I came across several interesting trends that I think will affect publishing. In fact, I've already seen some of these at work in the three months since I wrote the report, and I plan on using this information for my own startup, Write or Read. I've broken up this post into three parts. Read parts two and … [Read more...] about Trends in Publishing
