The authors deal with Kindle Unlimited feel like stuffing the turkey – Actualitté.com

To say that the subscription payment model relates peanuts responsibility of understatement. With Kindle Unlimited, especially as it seems the idea is brought to light, accompanying the known strike force of Amazonian systems. But if the big publishers are still reluctant, self-published authors to start shooting the language.

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After the conflict Amazon / Hachette Book Group, which has harmed sales house authors, it is now the writers went through Kindle Direct Publishing tool that question. On the one hand, Amazon offers a subscription offer to $ 9.99 monthly, on the other, unit sales of digital books seem to decrease. Things are changing at a bewildering speed.

If the self-publishing even door as traditional publishing its part dream, digital marketing technologies seemed to open up new avenues. Romances, science fiction, or even fan-fictions, works derived from pre-existing universe, opened the door to much larger whole literature and a large number of authors. For the record, Amazon did not have in 2010 that 600,000 ebooks sold individually. Today there are more than three million and more than 800,000 in the subscription offer. At Smashwords, digital distributor authors and independent publishers, there was a 20% increase in the number of writers on this past year.

impacted unit sales, crestfallen authors?

Then in 2013, sales of ebooks have stabilized at $ 3 billion in the US, there had been an increase in sales of 50% in 2012. Except that with Kindle Unlimited, the program offers unlimited, independent authors seem to have become turkey stuffing. A grotesque farce, pretending open the doors of tens of thousands of digital books, for a pittance, and suggesting that writing might not be much.

The music already knows this craze, with Spotify, Deezer, and al. The cinema is plagued negotiations with Netflix, and in any case, the subscription model and not unit purchase seems to be a definitive direction taken by the pipes vendors. The cultural industry in its dematerialized form, will never be the same. Unless the pipes suddenly find themselves emptied …

Holly Ward , 37, is a writer: she writes novels with which she could still earn about $ 100 a week – mostly at Amazon. It notes that, since it was launched in the self-publishing in 2011, the numbers drop to the point that Amazon now generates less than $ 120 annually, against $ 5,200 still some time ago.

Now accepting crossing Kindle Unlimited is signing with drastic marketing conditions, such as exclusivity. Forbidden to offer his work at Apple, Barnes & amp; Noble. A requirement which, if it is not accompanied by high remuneration, casts some doubt on the value of the offer. An author selling an eBook for $ 4.99 will receive 70% of revenues, or $ 3.50. But with Kindle Unlimited, revenues are insecure, more than ever. In July, for every book borrowed in this context, the fee was $ 1.80 and $ 1.33 in October before rising, so to speak, in November to $ 1.39.

While Amazon communicated on rights senior to those authors as traditional publishing offers its authors Kindle Unlimited remains, relatively speaking, more attractive, but losses for the freelance writer is significant.

My book, my battle, my promotion

One problem could be the excessive competition of unlimited supply, but in fact, this issue would be easily transposed to offer for sale to the unit. Players with KU, are winners, insofar as their playing time is extensible – but it is not. At all. A freelance writer will operate its own communication, through the channels available to it, to make themselves known. But all the excitement never aim at the promotion of his works, not those of the neighbor. So keep fighting the campaign to inform the world that a new book exists, but that it is found in Kindle Unlimited, it means working for others. And continue to see revenue Kindle Unlimited decrease, while attending an obvious cannibalization of unit sales.

As Holly Ward assured the New York Times: “ The only person I trust to my career, it’s me. If you pause your work, this means dropping your child in a box and throw him a kick in the direction of the sidewalk. Maybe it will grow and be awesome, or it is going to get sucked into sewers and be raised by rats. “The picture is quite evocative.

N ‘ forget that inside any consumer, there is a person in search of opportunity. Access to many, without much consideration for what is actually proposed, this may sound like a good opportunity. Let there be no mistake: the account is not a qualitative judgment. It is diving into the world of Grosse Bouffe, where everything is at will, until they explode in the liver.

Unlimited, but the reading time limits

Arnaud Nourry, CEO Hachette Livre “ I’ll be the last to dive. It no sense. In music, subscription forms may make sense, because people consume a lot of pieces. “ ” If we went to the subscription , we would, for sure, to the destruction of the economic model that we put in place. “ (source)

The reason given by Arnaud Nourry, CEO of Hachette Livre, its refusal to enter the world of unlimited subscription is a shrub that hides the forest. It is not possible that the group does not plan to take advantage of a nearby solution to support a now invisible works funds. Otherwise, why have with a Google book digitization agreement in July 2011, all for 50,000 titles, the publisher has rights?

So do not take Children of God for wild ducks. Except that the editor, like any other, wants full control of this offer, as it controls the sale price since 1980.

But the problem encountered by any independent author became the market window of Amazon, is seriously challenge traditional publishers in France and elsewhere. If a customer buys fewer books, having subscribed to an unlimited supply whatsoever, then the calculation is quickly made: sales decline everywhere.

In France The Ministry of Culture has just tripped over the carpet, asking the Mediatrix of the book to give his opinion on the legality of the digital offering. On the one hand, it will never as a feeling, not a court decision, that only the judge can make. On the other hand, some players of the subscription can claim that the country is stifling innovation.

But above all remember that for an author published by a traditional publisher, the average incomes are around 70 cents donated to 300 pages an unlimited subscriber will read. And yet, the amount is to be shared between author and publisher, the contractual discretion decided by it. Innovation, that would be the impoverishment?

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Ebooks unlimited: help reading or allow anything?

Kindle Unlimited: to enter the book mediator Fleur Pellerin is the editor

Fleur Pellerin: the unlimited subscription seems “not in accordance with the law”

Amazon, Chromebooks and products Kindle Fire for Christmas – Le Journal du Geek

On Amazon, Chromebooks and products Kindle Fire for Christmas

By Editor Member, December 27, 2014 at 08:30 Business

Amazon made the Christmas accounts and is particularly pleased to announce that several of its own products have reached the summits. In fact, we found some branded devices Amazon under the pines, especially in the United States for that matter.

The Fire TV has thus regained the top seller in the streaming boxes category. The TV Stick Fire, Fire HD 6 and Fire HD 7 are among the most represented in the wish lists this Christmas objects (the Stick is nothing less than the Amazon device that is the most sold). Sales of Fire tablets were tripled compared to Black Friday 2013; about the Kindle reading lights, they have passed four times, always in relation to Black Friday last year.

Fire HD tablets 6, 7 and HDX HD 7 were the most sold slate during the holiday season. The volume of applications available on Appstore doubled between 2013 and 2014. All this makes your head spin, but as usual Amazon book absolutely no figure, merely align superlatives. Not great for comparing …

Note however that radius computers, three Chromebooks that have sold the most, namely the Acer C270 (11.6-inch, 2GB RAM) ASUS 13-inch HP 11-2010nr. These three devices have the particular run on Chrome OS course, but also to be sold at around $ 300.

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Kindle unlimited: “Do not make a scarecrow Amazon” – L’Express

A stone in the garden of Fleur Pellerin, and recruit for Amazon. While the Minister of Culture took the mediating book to examine the subscription offer “Kindle unlimited”, which seems to him “not in accordance with the law,” the pioneering digital writer François Bon decides on their Site for subscriptions in unlimited reading.

The cultural offer subscription on the Spotify model seems more suited to the digital era for François Bon: “… The classic editorial system does not know what to focus on sales numbers extremely restricted shares [...] With the subscription, there is another possibility: you explore all the catalog, you venture into new voice. ” Since 2009, Publie.net editions created by François Bon offer such offer, just as little conformity with the law of the Amazon.

In the spirit of Francis Well, he is not acting as an advocate for the provision of Amazon: “The Kindle Unlimited subscription model, it is big enough to know one has to do it or not. If you do not like it, do not worry, it will regulate itself. The issue of the subscription is too heavy to be handled solely by Amazon a scarecrow. ”

Read also: Amazon Unlimited: should subscribe to Netflix Book

Outcry against Amazon Kindle Unlimited – BBC

Fleur Pellerin challenges the legality of playing unlimited subscription service of the US giant.

As was to be expected, response to the launch of its offering by Amazon Kindle Unlimited was quick. Ten days after the marketing of the subscription service – which allows for 9.99 euros per month to access a library of 700,000 shares (of which 20,000 in French) via the Kindle reading light – the letters from people Society (LDMS) reacted strongly Monday, declaring himself “resolutely opposed” to the service. The same day, the Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, grabbed the new mediator of the book for legal advice.

This subscription service, Amazon is not the only operator to offer in France “does not seem consistent with the law”, said the minister, who was following the case for several weeks and had sought the assistance of the Directorate General of Media and Cultural Industries (DGMIC) and that of the Centre . National Book (CNL), under his tutelage, to address the topic

“Our position is simple: all these new offerings must comply with the 2011 Act, that is, -dire respect the principle of fair compensation for all industry players, including authors, “said a spokesman for the ministry, adding that the law states that it is for the publisher to fix the price of the book, whether printed or digital.

It’s Laurence Engel, Aurélie Filippetti former Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Culture named to the newly created position of mediator book Last September, so that bears the burden of bringing together publishers and relevant distribution platforms early January to make it “as soon as possible its opinion on the articulation of subscription offerings with the framework set by the law, “reported the Rue de Valois.

The question of legality in France for this type of subscription unlimited supply has been asked by the president of CNL, Vincent Monad, as well as the LDMS, which represents 6,000 authors. It is even the first time the author objects to an Amazon initiative. In particular, they point out that, as has been found in the music, this type of device is extremely low wage for artists. “Now we do not know today the conditions publishers compensation in the service offered by Amazon, much less those of the authors,” says the LDMS.

In the case of a subscription a public library, for example, a law of 2003 specifies that the author may object to the lending of copies of his book but it entitles him to compensation, part of which, at the expense of the state, is sitting on a flat-rate contribution per user, and another, paid by booksellers, corresponding to 6% of the price of the book sales excluding tax books sold to municipal and university libraries.

But it is not certain that such a system in the public service or applicable to private platforms. In any event, with a few exceptions, all the major French publishing houses have still not signed an agreement with Amazon to integrate the catalog of Kindle Unlimited.

Editors Kindle vs Unlimited: Fleur Pellerin joins in – Archimag

Two weeks after the launch of Kindle Unlimited, unrestricted play subscription service at 9.99 euros per month, the Minister of Culture has decided to step up. Fleur Pellerin believes that “the 2011 Act establishes a rule: it is the publisher that sets the digital book sales price As such, the offer proposed by Kindle Unlimited does not seem consistent with the law.” <. / p>

Flower Pellerin decided to enter the mediator of the book, Laurence Engel, who will render an opinion on the service sold by Amazon “as soon as possible.”

“A shift in values”

Since its launch, Kindle Unlimited managed to do almost unanimously the publishing world against him. The letter of people’s Company (LDMS) denounced “a revolution of values: those of the book of creation, and therefore the author.” In his eyes, unlimited reading devices are not paying enough for the authors. “Now we do not know today the conditions publishers compensation in the service offered by Amazon, much less that of the authors’ highlights the LDMS.

Amazon launched its service in the Kindle Unlimited early December 2014 for 9.99 USD per month. This subscription provides unlimited access to 700,000 books, including 20,000 titles in French.

Kindle Unlimited Pellerin wants mediation – BBC

Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, said Monday it has seized the mediator of the book about the unlimited access subscription form of e-books, such as the Amazon Kindle Unlimited which “does not seem consistent with the law.”

This new subscription service of the US giant, which offers customers unlimited access to a wide selection of digital books for 9.99 euros per month, just to be launched in France

“The 2011 law establishes a rule.. it is the publisher that sets the digital book sales price As such, the offer proposed by no Kindle Unlimited seem to comply with the law, “said the minister in a statement. This is why “I grabbed the mediator of the book (Laurence Engel, note), which, after consultation publishers and platforms concerned will as soon as possible its opinion on the articulation of subscription offerings with framework set by the law. “

Haro against unlimited Kindle! – BBC

Launched by Amazon, unlimited subscription service seriously concerned about the letters from people of Society and the National Book Centre, but also large publishing houses.

The news is alarming, and the title is very explicit: “Following unlimited access: resolutely hostile LDMS.” It is written in big and bold. The Société des gens de lettres (LDMS) wanted to attract public attention and the world of books about the consequences of the new recently launched Amazon Kindle service christened Unlimited. This is an unlimited access to a supply of books against ten euros per month, a common practice in the music and in film.

But for LDMS, which represents authors and defends their rights This service involves “a revolution of values: those of the book of creation, and therefore the author.” The statement said that the known Unlimited access devices, primarily tested to date in the music industry, is extremely low finally paying for artists. “Now we do not know today the terms of remuneration of publishers in the service offered by Amazon, much less those of the authors,” is he said.

This is not the first time an initiative to Amazon provokes reactions of book professionals. We remember the controversy over free shipping, censorship made by the online merchant Hachette against the United States, but also the petition of 900 American writers who had published an open letter in the New York Times to denounce the hegemony of the US giant.

In France, even if the digital book market remains embryonic moment the LDMS is seriously concerned about the implications of access unlimited digital sales of printed books. Concern which also includes diffusion models of digital book library currently offered by publishers. ” And the Society of men of letters to be offended, “With Amazon, the question of the legality of such an offer: they are the unlimited subscription packages compatible with the law on the single price for digital books when ‘they are the work of a distributor and not a publisher? It seems not. “

The LDMS chaired by Marie Sellier, is not the only body to worry about. The National Book Centre, as well as publishers such as Hachette Books wonder about this offer unlimited service. To be continued.

GTA Chinatown Wars now available on Android and Amazon Kindle – Generation NT

Originally released for the Nintendo DS before arriving on other media, GTA: Chinatown Wars is available on iOS for some years. Rockstar has finally released its mobile title to the media Android and Kindle at Amazon .

The app works on all compatible smartphones and tablets, including the Google Nexus Player or TV Amazon Fire. The title is available at 4.49 euros on the Google Play service and requires the use of Android 4.0 or higher.

On the occasion of this event, Rockstar has also updated the iOS version of the game to provide a review of the touch controls, assistance in physical controls, and improved rendering via an enhanced resolution and suitable Retina screens .

Kindle Unlimited – limited catalog for reading lights Amazon – UFC Que Choisir

After the music and video, eBook is in turn thrown into the unlimited arena at all. Amazon has just launched Kindle Unlimited , a service that provides access to a catalog of more than 700,000 ebooks, including 20 000 in French, 9.99 € / month (a current introductory offer until 10 January 2015 allows you to pay 0.99 € the first month subscription) . These books can be viewed from its Kindle reading light, or from the Kindle reading applications installed on smartphone or tablet (Android or iOS).

Amazon boasts a wide and varied catalog, consisting of novels, short stories , children’s books or practical guides. So we were a little disappointed looking after each other in vain, the top ten list of the best books of sales (1). Blake and Mortimer – Volume 23: The stick Plutarch ? Absent. Charlotte , David Foenkinos? Absent. No crying, the Prix Goncourt in 2014, Lydie Salvayre? Absent! The new features are clearly still reserved for the purchase to the act (digital or paper, for that matter). Take less recent works, those of Amélie Nothomb, for example. Or Franz-Olivier Giesbert. Or Simone de Beauvoir. Stephen King. Absent, absent, absent. “All editors did not wish to integrate their catalog program. Some prefer to observe before launching “, says Marie-Pierre Sangouard, director of Kindle content. Thus neither Gallimard nor Hachette nor Actes Sud will participate. In reality, the catalog is quite thin, and is a little dated works in the public domain or self-published. He finally represents a small proportion of the total catalog of ebooks from Amazon, which has 3 million shares, of which 180,000 in French.

10 pounds simultaneously

As part of the Service Kindle Unlimited, customers can download as many books as they want during the month. But they can only hold 10 simultaneously. 11 ^th , you must delete one. This restriction, according to the manager, to limit abuse. In use, the dozen books enough to always have to put in the tooth. Especially as the selected books are available immediately on all devices via the Kindle reading application. Read a comic or a travel guide is nicer on the color screen of a tablet or smartphone as a

No more 10 pounds at the same time! In the 11th, a message prompts the user to “make” a title to be able to download a new one.

Books devalued?

This provides plenty raises the same issues as those in place for the music or video: publishers, authors, booksellers, everyone he finds there his account? This “normalization” of the book does not make him risk losing value to consumers? Difficult to know precisely how are paid authors and publishers, each publisher who negotiated the contract with Amazon. But the calculation is necessarily based on a principle of proportionality in relation to the number of downloads books, like music streaming or video on demand. As for the devaluation of books, Amazon does not. “On the contrary, it places the book in the center of digital entertainment. The service can attract new readers, such as students or young people “, says Marie-Pierre Sangouard. Time will tell if they are waiting for you and if Kindle Unlimited turned them, a time at least, their other screens.

(1) EDISTAT, week 8 to 14 December 2014.

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