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Kindle Unlimited Pool Is Bigger In Dollars, Lower Per Book

February 19, 2015
By Michael Cader

With the continuing rollout of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription program to additional territories, the total payout to participating authors continues to grow, even as the per-borrow payment remains near its lowest levels. Every month on or about the 15th, Amazon tells authors how much they will be paid on a retroactive basis, still terming the payment […]

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Scribd Adds Comics, Jeb Bush Samples Book of eMails

February 10, 2015
By Michael Cader

Scribd‘s latest addition to their subscription catalog is a comics vertical, with over 10,000 comic books and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Valiant, IDW/Top Shelf and Archie. CEO Trip Adler says in the announcement, “We are very excited to take this step in expanding our subscription service beyond books. This addition gives comics readers the freedom […]

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Announcements: Oyster Adds Harry Potter, R&L Buys Chase’s

January 28, 2015
By Michael Cader

eBook subscription service Oyster announced on Wednesday morning that they have added the Harry Potter series to their collection, along with 3 Hogwarts Library titles. Amazon first licensed the Potter books from Pottermore for borrowing in May 2012, originally on an exclusive basis “at least until 2014,” for inclusion in their Kindle Owner’s Lending Library across […]

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Macmillan Signs Up For Subscription Test With Scribd, Oyster

January 13, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

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 […]

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Briefs

December 19, 2014
By Michael Cader

Following Macmillan ceo John Sargent’s indication that they will, with some reluctance, “test subscription in the coming weeks,” Oyster announced that their collection now includes over 1,000 titles published by Bloomsbury. Harper UK has disclosed their annual results for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014. Sales fell to £179 million, down £11 million from the prior […]

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Digital: News from KU, Kobo, Scribd and Curtis Brown UK

December 12, 2014
By Michael Cader

Amazon has launched Kindle Unlimited in France and Brussels. Kobo is bringing “three-for-two” deals from the trade paperback tables to the ebookstore — starting with a promotion in the US with Hachette Book Group, good only through December 15. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is now participating in Scribd‘s ebook subscription service. (HMH is one of the […]

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