December 14, 2014

Are you a subscriber?

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2014 may go down as the year of the subscription. It’s been something we talked about on this blog for many years. We discussed price point, the types of books we wanted to see Back in 2009 we took a poll about subscriptions when a new company called Paper Egg[FN1] ... more >

November 16, 2014

Kindle Unlimited and the only Amazon numbers we know for sure.

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Amazon is notoriously opaque. It does not reveal the number of devices sold or books sold or movies downloaded. It’s hard to measure the success of any one program and the algorithms it uses to construct its bestseller lists are a closely guarded secret. There are those who guess but ... more >

JaneEbooksEbooks / Harlequin / subscriptions181 Comments

Harlequin has signed a deal to provide exclusive subscription access to 15,000 backlist titles to Scribd subscribers. Not sure what Scribd is? It’s a subscription access service. I wrote about all three of the main ones here and concluded (even without the Harlequin content) that Scribd was the best of ... more >

JaneEbookssubscriptions33 Comments

With the launch of Kindle Unlimited, we thought it was time to do a comparison and give our opinion as to which one is worth your $9 or $10 per month. We began talking about subscriptions back in 2009 and I followed that up in 2011. It’s amusing to look ... more >

June 25, 2014

Wednesday News: Börsenverein v. Amazon, the future of digital lending, YouTube’s subscription service, and polling readers for a book title

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / book titles / digital publishing / ebook royalties / Germany / Google / Libraries / music / Polls / record labels / subscriptions / YouTube5 Comments

Note: We’ve had some caching issues where the front page (the one with the slider) failed to update the content. The https://dearauthor.com/blog page was fine. I think we’ve fixed it but if you visit DA and there’s not updated content, let us know by emailing [email protected] with the issue (and ... more >

November 7, 2013

Thursday News: Book Riot columnist challenges romances’ isolationist attitudes; subscription services eroding album sales; Harlequin suffers 3d quarter decline

JanePublishing Newsbook-sales / criticism-of-romance / subscriptions14 Comments

Romance and the Problems with “By Women, For Women, About Women” – Reader Lynn sent me this article and my response was “Wow, I don’t know what to think of this article.” And I don’t. The author of this piece who I know as Heidenkind posits that the praise for ... more >