Tag: ebook subscription
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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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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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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Uncounted by Circana Bookscan or the AAP, ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out $278.2 million in royalties in H1 2023 (up 10.7%), mostly to self-publishers
Until the industry acknowledged these uncounted additional revenue and unit numbers, the picture...
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Kobo Plus expansion into US and UK is another much-needed nail in the coffin of the unlimited-subscription-is-over brigade
Publishers not wishing to add weight to Amazon’s dominance of the book markets by supporting...
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Uncounted by the APA, Nielsen et al, Kindle Unlimited paid out over a half billion dollars in 2022 – mostly to self-publishers
That’s up $72 million on 2021, at a time when the preferred mainstream publishing narrative is...
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The future of 24Symbols in question as parent company BestSharer goes into administration
This is a breaking news story that we’ll try update as details come in, but TNPS has learned...
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Publishers look the other way as VOD streamers target Middle East’s “spiral of growth” in a “highly lucrative market of digital first consumers”
India’s SonyLIV is the latest video streaming operator to enter the lucrative and fast-growing...
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Storytel reports strong growth. Beats Q2 expectations
With 621,000 subscribers in Q2 2018, up nearly 200,000 on the same period 2017, Storytel’s CEO...
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