On December 7, Amazon has updated its Kindle Unlimited Service, which is now asked to call SUBSCRIPTION Kindle. History to comply with French legislation on the single price for digital books, the American firm operates several changes. And embarks on a fun exercise in transparency.
Amazon does indeed play the card of mediation. The Mediatrix Book Engel Laurence had indeed returned the different operators offering unlimited subscription offer to their studies. Considering that this model was contrary to the law on the single price for digital books, it became imperative to alter product offerings. And to do this, ensure that the principle of unrestricted be nullified.
“ Previously, publishers gave a blank check to broadcasters since they fixed the subscription sales prices. They were no longer able to exercise the responsibility that the book gives them regulatory framework. Now that publishers set their prices according to the different conditions, they will also have to involve authors “we explained the authority of the Mediation, Laurence Engel driver.
Thus, “ following the recommendations of the Ombudsman’s book about reading digital book services by subscription, the Subscription Program Kindle is now based on a purchasing system consulting units, pooled between subscribers residing in metropolitan France “indicates subscription Kindle
This is how all will now work. publishers set a price” treatment unit “, in this case the page. Subscribers will thus have a credit counseling, after paying the monthly price of € 9.99. Each page will be credited read this kitty.
For a few cents more …
And Amazon continues: ” [S] i the cumulative reading appropriations actually consumed in the month exceeds the total amount of subscriptions paid by customers established in France during the same period, the price of subscription may be revised in the conditions set out in section “Change Program” . “
This will discover the tariffs set by each publishing company entered the process on this basis.
The offers have been classified partly as a ratio of the number of pages of the book, and unit price per page for some, or overall unit price for all short-page, whatever the size of the ‘work.
For self-published titles, one goes from € 0.0001 to € 0.0003. Then, a wide variety of rates is presented. Universalis has therefore set at € 0.1 consultation of each page, and Eyrolles has the highest rate with the book Memento jQuery to € 1.17821 per page. The title itself has 14 pages, and is found to € 4.99 in digital format.
Note that this means that a subscription to € 9.99 can not read the text in full: 14 pages multiplied by 1.17 and some are € 16.
However, professionals will now find a new reason to point the index with an angry Amazon marketing methods. Indeed, for every present in the catalog Subscription Kindle include an indication of the product offering to read the book for € 0.
The question will be whether the titles present in the catalog Subscription Kindle will have a specific before implementation – as consideration for having subscribed to the reading service. The all knowing that to date, the account offers 25,000 digital titles in the French catalog. Fleur Pellerin, who had praised the quality of mediation and its success, considering that the 2011 law now favor “ the emergence of new offerings, adapting to the needs of citizens while protecting the foundations of the vitality of the book sector in France . ”
And probably new bypass attempts …
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