Macmillan has made good on ceo John Sargent’s reluctant promise in his end-of-2014 letter to “test subscription” program. The company will make available 1,000 titles — including science fiction & fantasy novels by Elizabeth Bear, Orson Scott Card, and Ursula K. LeGuin, to novels and nonfiction by Michel Foucault, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Louis Menand — on both Scribd and Oyster‘s ebook subscription services. In his December letter to authors and agents, Sargent had written that they would focus on “backlist books, and mostly … titles that are not well represented at bricks and mortar retail stores.” Macmillan has already making ebooks available for sale on Scribd; […]
