Category: ebook subscription services
A decade of unlimited ebook subscription. $3.5 billion paid to self-publishers
Markus, that deadline is almost up. If you wish, I can get the kids at school to make you a The End Is Nigh sandwich board so you can walk the streets of Manhattan outside PRH like Bruce Willis in Die Hard Whatever-Number-It-Was, and remind everyone just how dumb you were.
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TNPS forecasts annual Kindle Unlimited payout to self-publishers to hit $635 million this year
This year the July payout sets a new record (probably only until next month) with $55.5 million being shared.
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2024 on target to clock $1.2 billion in invisible ebook revenues as AAP reports decline
The total sum paid out to self-publishers and small presses so far this year is $205.8 million, putting ebook unlimited subscription service Kindle Unlimited on target to pay out $620m in royalties in 2024.
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Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription paid out $49 million to self-pub authors and small presses in February
History suggests the payout will hover around the $49 million per month mark during H1 and climb a...
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa
Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
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23 million subscribed to ad-supported Netflix. Book-streaming platforms should explore the option
Would a 30 second ad inserted every five or ten chapters really be more disruptive than a knock at...
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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USA – Bookstore Sales Fell 17% in August. Ebooks fell, or rose, depending on where you look.
It is not clear just how much college books shifting to digital are contributing to the 17% August...
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Amazon pays out almost $50 million to self-pub authors using Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service as August US print market slows
It will be interesting to see what, if any, changes the new PRH CEO Nihar Malaviya will make to...
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August print sales down 7% as US market slows. Expect the KU ebook pay-out to be up 10% by comparison
But what mainstream publishers will have preferred not to hear was that romance sales were way...
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US Music market share by volume, by genre. Lessons for book publishers
So what happened between 2015-2016 that recalibrated the US music industry and convinced American...
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H1 ebook revenue down says AAP as it omits well over a quarter billion dollars in uncounted ebook spend
The Kindle Unlimited pot pay-out for self-published authors’ ebooks is on target to exceed...
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