Comments on: Here’s How A Subscription Service For E-books Could Work http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/06/419-heres-how-a-subscription-service-for-e-books-could-work/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 19:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thad McIlroy http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/06/419-heres-how-a-subscription-service-for-e-books-could-work/#comment-84370 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:14:35 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/07/06/419-heres-how-a-subscription-service-for-e-books-could-work/#comment-84370 As per the comment above: this is a possible model only for niche publishers.

Aside from that can you think of a publisher of trade books where you would want to receive EVERYTHING they publish?

No.

So this quickly becomes a question of whether we’ll soon find the digital equivalent of the old “Book of the Month Club” or “The History Book Club”. The answer: You bet! I’m sure there are a host of unimaginitive entrepreneurs working on it already.

(Funny to remember that there was once a quite successful “Quality Paperback Book Club”. That hints at how much the landscape has changed.)

]]> By: Cruciform Press http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/06/419-heres-how-a-subscription-service-for-e-books-could-work/#comment-84369 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:15:51 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/07/06/419-heres-how-a-subscription-service-for-e-books-could-work/#comment-84369 At Cruciform Press we are 10 months into a model that, in addition to selling books individually, offers a new book the first of each month to our niche Christian audience by subscription. All books the same price and same basic length. Annual or monthly subscriptions. Subscribers get ebooks for $3.99 in their choice of mobi, epub, or PDF. Ebooks are approaching 30% of overall sales and continually growing. http://cruciformpress.com

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