The definition of ‘ publishing liquid “- spread in recent years of deep 
transformation of the publishing industry – has never been so apt as now. Latest trend seems to be that of read streaming to Subscription , which is exactly what the diffusion model of music in digital format through tools such as Spotify , just to mention one of the most well-known.
Let us see a overview of these new solutions for reading .
Just a few days the news of the launch by Amazon service Unlimited Edition that allows all users – currently only USA – access to a Digital Library 600,000 titles , or listen to thousands of audiobooks , by subscribing to a small subscription amounting to $ 9.99 per month . As expected great titles stand out – the saga of the boy wizard Harry Potter to that of Tolkien with a lot of elves and hobbits – but also little-known authors that Amazon puts the number to increase the attractiveness of its proposal. The offer is enriched by the possibility to use the service Whispersync for Voice , for “switchare” at any time by reading the ebook to listen to the same without losing your place, and a free trial a period of thirty days.
At the moment Kindle Unlimited will be available only for American market and you will be able to exploit through Amazon device, PC, Mac, Windows 8 or through the various free Kindle reading app for iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry and Android.
Well before Amazon , however, two start-ups have worked around the idea of subscription subscriptions to digital reading – albeit with a park titles a bit ‘more restricted – signing agreements with the larger American publishers: Oyster offers a monthly subscription at $ 9.95 (for Android, iOS, Nook and Kindle Fire HD), Scribd $ 8.99 (iPad , iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire and web browser), both with unlimited access to securities of their store and with a system of read also online .
entitle , born eReatah, proposes subscriptions Diversified depending on the amount of titles you want to buy: from $ 9.99 to month for 2 ebook up to 99 $ per year for 24 licenses, giving then the possibility of subscriptions to measure if you still want more ebook. Entitle are also available on iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Nook and Kobo.
Our tour on reading ebook subscription is not intended to be exhaustive, but leaving the experiences of the United States, Europe no shortage of examples and we can move from Spain to 24symbols to go up to the north of the Danish Mofibo , to limit ourselves to mention only two.
E ground Italian ? We mention in Bookstreams.it and project Lea (Books and More) Laterza , near the exit.
Bookstreams.it is operating similarly to the aforementioned Spotify, except for commercial breaks: the reader pays a monthly fee and can have all the titles in the catalog (there are already partnerships with small and medium-sized publishing houses). However, only in the initial phase, you can choose from the entire catalog, but will be offered subscriptions for a certain number of books per month , at a price variable (which in any case shall not exceed ten euro per month) and which take into account also the cover price.
Lea Laterza has been presented at the last Book Fair of Turin and in purpose, in addition to providing users 500 titles of the great catalog Laterza, will provide a direct link between authors and readers. On the platform, in fact, come out in streaming also works under review. Only the exchange of ideas between writer and users will lead to the final draft and publication of the paper: thus not only a place where you can read , but a point of interaction between readers and authors.
The doubt, all be debunked, is whether the readers, already reluctant to approach the purchase of the ebook – a good possessed only ” half “, so to speak, because they do not have the property but the license – able to still open in the face of what this time is configured as a totally volatile asset: the” literary streaming . “
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