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Big-5 publisher Macmillan adds its ebooks to Scribd and Oyster

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Another large publisher has decided that ebook subscription services are worth testing out: Macmillan on Tuesday became the third big-5 publisher to make ebooks available on Oyster and Scribd, following HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.

Macmillan is adding about 1,000 titles to both services. Macmillan CEO John Sargent had said in December that the publisher would test ebook subscriptions on “backlist books, and mostly with titles that are not well represented at bricks and mortar retail stores,” as a way of battling Amazon’s dominance in the ebook market.

Oyster and Scribd are vying for dominance in the ebook subscription market right now, alongside [company]Amazon[/company], which launched its competing Kindle Unlimited service over the summer. All three services are slightly less than $10 a month. So far, big-5 publishers are refusing to participate in Kindle Unlimited (like Macmillan, they see no reason to give Amazon a larger share of their ebook sales than…

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Oyster Updates

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The links below are to articles reporting on the latest news from Oyster.

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– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/oyster-adds-user-curated-ebook-recommendations-to-drive-discovery/
– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/oyster-goes-social-for-discovery/

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Ebook subscription site Oyster expands to Android, Kindle Fire and Nook tablets

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The $9.95 per month ebook subscription service Oyster, which was previously only available on iOS(s AAPL), expanded to Android(s GOOG), Kindle(s AMZN) Fire and Nook(s BKS) HD tablets Tuesday — thus removing one of the differentiating factors between it and rival service Scribd. New features include “read time” for books (there is a similar feature on Kindle e-readers) and the ability to turn a book’s pages using the volume buttons on an Android device. Oyster, which is based in NYC and launched in fall 2013, now has over 500,000 titles, with two of the big-five publishers — Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — participating.

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Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Crosses 500K Titles, Plans An Android Launch This Year

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Oyster Adds Kids Books

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The link below is to an article that reports on Oyster adding kids books to it ebook subscription service.

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http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/oyster-adds-kids-books-to-collection_b82737

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Oyster: The Inside Story

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The link below is to an article that takes a look at how the ‘Netflix’ of ebooks established itself.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57617713-93/how-the-netflix-of-books-won-over-the-publishing-industry-q-a/

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Subscription Ebook Services

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The link below is to an article that takes a look at ebook subscription services including Scribd, Oyster and Entitle.

For more visit:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremygreenfield/2013/12/19/subscription-ebook-services-scribd-oyster-and-entitle-duke-it-out-for-early-dominance/

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Here’s how much Smashwords authors will get paid through ebook subscription service Oyster

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Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

In the past couple of months, two ebook subscription services — Oyster and Scribd — have launched. Both aim to be a “Netflix (S NFLX) for ebooks,” providing unlimited access to ebooks from a variety of publishers for a set monthly fee.

Both Oyster and Scribd have been fairly circumspect about how authors are paid when their books are accessed through the apps — in part because the terms may vary slightly by publisher. Now, though, we’re getting a little bit more information on how author payments through Oyster work.

Self-publishing distributor Smashwords is letting its authors include their ebooks in Oyster. On Friday, Smashwords CEO Mark Coker sent authors and publishers an email explaining how the financial terms of the arrangement will work:

“As a Smashwords author or publisher, you’ll earn 60 percent of your book’s retail list price whenever an Oyster subscriber reads more than 10 percent of…

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Ebook subscription startup Oyster expands to iPad and opens to all; some stats from Scribd

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Oyster, the Peter Thiel-backed startup that aims to be a Netflix (s NFLX) for ebooks, was iPhone-only and invite-only for its first six weeks. On Wednesday, though, Oyster launched its iPad (s AAPL) app and opened up to everyone. And it is now offering a free 30-day trial of its service — which is essential, since consumers are still very unfamiliar with ebook subscription services.

When I reviewed Oyster six weeks ago, I was impressed by its design and its offerings — over 100,000 in-copyright ebooks for $9.95 a month. But I thought the app’s lack of availability on iPad was a big drawback because I think it’s hard to do serious reading on an iPhone. The launch on iPad remedies this problem, of course, and subscribers’ books will sync between both devices.

Oyster’s design on iPad is great, just as the iPhone app design is. One feature…

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Article: Ebook Subscription Services Compared

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The link below is to an article that compares ebook subscription services – Oyster, eReatah, Scribd and Kindle Owner’s Lending Library.

For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/10/08/comparing-subscription-ebook-services/