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May 24, 2017

Wednesday News: Scribd, Google, BookExpo, and “Bob”

JanetPublishing Newsbook reviewing / BookExpo America / digital advertising / digital subscriptions / Google / New York Times Book Review / news / privacy / Scribd3 Comments

Scribd Reports 500K Subscribers, Adds Newspaper Content – With more than 500,000 paid subscribers and an expectation of $50 million in profits for 2017, Scribd is again expanding its content offerings with “selected” content from The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. It does not appear ... more >

February 17, 2016

Wednesday News: Changes to Scribd, join a bookclub, Reedsy book editor, and RPF goes mainstream

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / book editor / ebook subscription service / fan-fiction / real person fiction / Reedsy / research study / Scribd11 Comments

Scribd Announces Major Changes to Subscription Service – While Nate Hoffelder characterizes this as Scribd “gutting” its ebook subscription service, that’s like more the case for the so-called “power reader” than for the reader who can read one book a week, max.  Scribd is pushing this as a more “sustainable” model ... more >

July 10, 2015

Friday News: Bestsellers, Subscription Services, and Super Heroes

JanetPublishing Newsbestseller lists / digital books / ESPN / Harper Collins / Macmillan / Marvel / Oyster / Scribd / subscription services / superheroes2 Comments

N.Y. Times keeps Cruz off bestseller list – Despite robust sales for Ted Cruz’s new book, it does not appear on the New York Times bestseller list, which prompted Harper Collins to send a letter to the newspaper, asking them why the book was absent from the list. Initially, Harper Collins ... more >

July 5, 2015

Scribd & KU and what those changes mean via Carolyn Jewel

JanePublishing Newsbook subscription service / Kindle Unlimited / Scribd16 Comments

I saw this great piece by Carolyn Jewel on the changes to the Scribd and KU subscription services and I asked permission to repost it here at Dear Author. Carolyn Jewel is a long time traditionally published author with several different publishing houses. She is also a self published author ... more >

July 1, 2015

Wednesday News: Scribd reduces Romance, Apple loses appeal, Tess Gerritsen abandons lawsuit, & Misty Copeland is ABT’s new principal

JanetPublishing Newsanti-trust / Apple / ballet / breach of contract / diversity / lawsuit / Romance / Scribd / subscription services / Tess Gerritsen41 Comments

Scribd Reduces Romance Catalog – From Jane: Late yesterday afternoon, news came out that Scribd was drastically reducing the number of romance books that would be available through the subscription service. I reached out to Scribd and received this message: “Over the past two years, the Scribd catalog has grown from 100,000 titles to more ... more >

April 19, 2015

Scribd: Shut Up and Take My Money

SuzanneEbooksEbooks / reading apps / Scribd / subscription service49 Comments

Dear Author had an excellent Scribd offer a few months back, giving us a three-month trial instead of one month. I signed up, happy to have access to free books for three months. At least, that was the idea. I planned to read my fill for three months and cancel ... more >

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