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> So no Penguin Random House, the market leader in print and audio The market leader in print and audio fiction. Fiction is ephemeral - mostly read and then d
by dingaling 12y ago
> So no Penguin Random House, the market leader in print and audio
The market leader in print and audio fiction.
Fiction is ephemeral - mostly read and then discarded. The awesome potential for this service is in factual and reference books that are used hundreds or thousands of time each in their lifetime.
The 1.5 books per month metric is diluted in that case when it's possible to dip into 100 books per month just to extract the one snippet of information needed from each.
- walterbell 12y agoKindle rental price for academic nonfiction is often quite pricy, e.g. $10 for one week for one book.
- e28eta 12y agoI think Safari Books Online has been doing well
- bphogan 12y agoIt's a shame how little the authors of the books see from that service.
- walterbell 12y agoIs the royalty structure public?
- gdilla 12y agoTrue, O'Reilly books has had a successful, expensive, subscription service for years. All reference titles, and more enterprise customers.