Kindle Unlimited scheduled for Frankfurt Book Fair – Actualitté.com

The market for European ebook, including direct competitors Scribd and Oyster, is expected to be somewhat messed up during this school year. According to Buch Report, Amazon could enjoy the annual Book Fair in Frankfurt to expand internationally its digital reading against subscription, Kindle Unlimited. A month ago that the new service was launched in the United States, and the company of Jeff Bezos has not yet revealed how far it would extend its availability worldwide.

Across the Atlantic, the American wolverines reading now have unrestricted access to a catalog of nearly 680,000 digital titles, and costs $ 8.99 monthly. With the ability to download two books at a time. No figures have been revealed about the number of subscribers, but the service is not without effects on the list of best-selling Kindle Store.

Under Kindle Unlimited, the firm of Jeff Bezos has not yet signed a contract with a major publishing houses of the Big Five. His catalog is therefore currently based largely on his offer of securities Kindle Direct Publishing Select autopubliés. Only a few traditional publishers have already signed, among which HMH, Scholastic, and Wiliey …

The annual edition of the Salon Frankfurt Book is scheduled from October 8 to 12, assuming Buch Report and consistent with the value estimated by our sources introductory period French during the month of July. In other countries, no date has yet been mentioned. It remains to be seen whether the program will be expanded to Amazon internationally in the coming months.

Sources : Buch Report, The Digital Reader

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Unlimited Kindle: Amazon applies when the model of Netflix’s book – Challenges.fr

The methods used by Amazon continue to be singled out, like the recent petitions American or German writers to denounce the tussle involved with publishing houses . It is a service set up by the online retailer that does not yet make him scream and professionals that could revolutionize the world of books: the Kindle offers Unlimited actually allows for only 9.99 dollars per month , access to over 600,000 books indefinitely.

The American giant and the model applies to books a hit in the video and online music via Netflix or Deezer. And you could see the fear in France that caused the arrival of the giant video on demand … The Amazon service only works currently in the United States, but he plans to develop in other countries soon.

Similar offers already exist. American Oyster Scribd and developed such subscriptions for heavy readers. In France, YouScribe proposes an equivalent since March. Juan Pirlot of Corbio, founder of the startup founder and former Chapitre.com, why should not stand upwind against a service it intends to impose itself in France.

Should we see the offer as a threat Kindle Unlimited

In general, we are all fascinated by all the new tools that offer us more mobility. With their smartphone or tablet, users will listen to more music, play more games and watch more movies. We must put the book where the uses are. The playing time continues to decline in France. That’s why you have to fight for the book to take more space. This is essential. Therefore a solution subscription

This is rather good news …

The arrival of Kindle Unlimited means. “I run a new service for users that demand. ” There are approximately 15 million members in libraries in France. An unlimited access model is a model of streaming. The edition is suitable for a use that has spread to all cultural products.

Should we see a revolution?

Yes and no. All publishers distribute their books in libraries. I see no difference with the 200 million pounds per year loans via libraries. I think it is not so revolutionary as that. Book clubs have existed in the 50s Libraries are a relay to promote reading.

Is it a blow to publishers

I’m not sure that their death is as brutal to be allowed to imagine. I did a lot of online bookstore [with Chapitre.com], and I’m not convinced that digital is as hard for booksellers.

Are there a reinventing business model

The offer Amazon confirms what we have put in place. We launched in March 2014 YouScribe Unlimited, a service that provides access to 50,000 books available in unlimited streaming for 9.90 euros per month. Our library has grown. We integrated the publisher offers. We have almost all the digital books with a purchasing model to act. Unlimited subscription as we propose is to remunerate authors for each page visited.

How

We donate 60% of publishers revenue based on the number of page views, track by track. It’s like Spotify or Deezer. It is a fair return on time spent on texts. It’s like SACEM which pays according to the number of transition from one song to the radio. It is a revolution in the sense that the numerical model allows to reverse based on the reading.

How many subscribers do you have for your unlimited supply

We have 800,000 registered members in the library and a few thousand subscribers unlimited. Our service starts fine. Paid subscription requires that we have a fairly wide range. But I feel that publishers see the value of this type of offer. It creates anxiety but overall all publishers think that the book should be present on mobile devices. So I’m very optimistic. Think of it as a rebirth for the publishing world.

Unlimited Kindle: Amazon applies the model of Netflix’s book – Challenges.fr

The methods used by Amazon continue to be singled out, like the recent petitions American or German writers to denounce the tussle involved with publishing houses . It is a service set up by the online retailer that does not yet make him scream and professionals that could revolutionize the world of books: the Kindle offers Unlimited actually allows for only 9.99 dollars per month , access to over 600,000 books indefinitely.

The American giant and the model applies to books a hit in the video and online music via Netflix or Deezer. And you could see the fear in France that caused the arrival of the giant video on demand … The Amazon service only works currently in the United States, but he plans to develop in other countries soon.

Similar offers already exist. American Oyster Scribd and developed such subscriptions for heavy readers. In France, YouScribe proposes an equivalent since March. Juan Pirlot of Corbio, founder of the startup founder and former Chapitre.com, why should not stand upwind against a service it intends to impose itself in France.

Should we see the offer as a threat Kindle Unlimited

In general, we are all fascinated by all the new tools that offer us more mobility. With their smartphone or tablet, users will listen to more music, play more games and watch more movies. We must put the book where the uses are. The playing time continues to decline in France. That’s why you have to fight for the book to take more space. This is essential. Therefore a solution subscription

This is rather good news …

The arrival of Kindle Unlimited means. “I run a new service for users that demand. ” There are approximately 15 million members in libraries in France. An unlimited access model is a model of streaming. The edition is suitable for a use that has spread to all cultural products.

Should we see a revolution?

Yes and no. All publishers distribute their books in libraries. I see no difference with the 200 million pounds per year loans via libraries. I think it is not so revolutionary as that. Book clubs have existed in the 50s Libraries are a relay to promote reading.

Is it a blow to publishers

I’m not sure that their death is as brutal to be allowed to imagine. I did a lot of online bookstore [with Chapitre.com], and I’m not convinced that digital is as hard for booksellers.

Are there a reinventing business model

The offer Amazon confirms what we have put in place. We launched in March 2014 YouScribe Unlimited, a service that provides access to 50,000 books available in unlimited streaming for 9.90 euros per month. Our library has grown. We integrated the publisher offers. We have almost all the digital books with a purchasing model to act. Unlimited subscription as we propose is to remunerate authors for each page visited.

How

We donate 60% of publishers revenue based on the number of page views, track by track. It’s like Spotify or Deezer. It is a fair return on time spent on texts. It’s like SACEM which pays according to the number of transition from one song to the radio. It is a revolution in the sense that the numerical model allows to reverse based on the reading.

How many subscribers do you have for your unlimited supply

We have 800,000 registered members in the library and a few thousand subscribers unlimited. Our service starts fine. Paid subscription requires that we have a fairly wide range. But I feel that publishers see the value of this type of offer. It creates anxiety but overall all publishers think that the book should be present on mobile devices. So I’m very optimistic. Think of it as a rebirth for the publishing world.

Readers of Kindle store less than on paper – RTBF

This is what emerges from a recent study of 50 people. The physical appearance of a paper book would facilitate the storage of its contents, unlike the Kindle e-readers.

The results of the study Anne Mangen, specialist the impact of digitization on the reading experience , are categorical; physical contact of a book is important in remembering the chronology and details of a story.

As we announced that Kindle would soon offer its subscription service, with a database more than 600,000 books, Anne Mangen conclusions tarnished somewhat advantages of the device, often put forward,

All participants were divided into two groups received the same story Elizabeth George, some on Kindle reading light, the other with the original book. Readers were then asked about various aspects of the book of 28 pages. Chronology, characters, objects, details or decor

The results showed that people with read the story on a Kindle reading light had more difficulty remembering the chronology of the plot, divided into 14 elements to reorder. Unlike reading on Kindle, participants ‘papers’ had no difficulty in answering this short survey.

How to explain this discrepancy between the two groups? For the research team, “ tactile dimension of a Kindle does not support the same way mental reconstruction of a story than a paperback printed .”

The simple contact between your fingers and the paper would be a key element in the process of storing, in the context of reading at least. For the researcher, “ when you read a classic book you can feel with your fingers the stack of pages that magnifies left and right decreases. Sensation of advancing the story is both visual and physical, which is why we get these results “

To read the complete article. click here.

Mathieu Menif The Guardian

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The evolution of the Kindle in a GIF – Gizmodo

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Gradually, the Amazon Kindle has emerged as the most attractive electronic readers, especially through its supply and its technical characteristics. And we might as well raise its price: most recently, Amazon selling off one of its Kindle to less than 30 €. But that is not the issue.

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For in fact, we offer this time a small step back in time to see the evolution of the design of the Kindle since the launch of its first version in 2007, with its latest version to date. Damage, GIF embodying the evolution of the flagship range from Amazon (credited GadgetLove) ignores the Paperwhite, for example.

However, it is always fun to (re) view older iterations of products now become cult, who casually had to do way to win. As such it is true that early versions of the Kindle had nothing really sexy: it was at the time no questions touchscreen, much less backlight. And what about the lack of responsiveness of convincing these machines

To mention another piece of the Kindle, we must remember that Amazon launched there is little the United States at least, a promising Service “Kindle Unlimited” , which is already dreaming of becoming the Netflix of books. The initiative is certainly aggressive, but in the times: more and more, the fashion trend -Long lease term or pas- products

A study says that stores less on Kindle than on paper – Rue89

The Norwegian researcher Anne Mangen, a specialist scanning the reading at the University of Stavanger, has conducted a study of fifty people. All received the same news 28 pages to read, half on Kindle, half on paper. The results, confirming a spontaneous intuition suggest that stores less plot and sequence of events on reading light.

“Skin sensitivity and tactile feedback of a Kindle support Similarly no mental reconstruction of a history of a printed book pocket. When you read down your fingers feel a stack of pages, collecting on the left and shrink right. You physically feel the progression beyond the visual. [...] Maybe somewhere, it helps the reader by giving it more strength and sitting in his awareness of the progress and the progress of the text, and thus the story. “

The university had previously worked on the emotional reception of literature, which differ on iPad and in print, and on the comparative PDF files and printed text reading. She believes that the idea that “digital natives” younger, would be better suited to reading on screen, is probably misleading. It would not be a matter of habit but one of the challenges of digitization

Read on The Guardian.com (English)

Kindle Unlimited: what the Netflix of Amazon’s book tells us about the future of … – The Tribune.fr

Unlimited words With Kindle, Amazon is challenging the book trade. But the question of financing the creation is still not resolved … By

In announcing the launch of an offering called Kindle Unlimited offering unlimited access to a catalog of 600,000 titles for less than 10 euros per month, Amazon does not just throw a huge challenge to all current book trade. It confirms the evolution of the ecosystem outlined by Netflix and the issues it raises content. Whether it’s video, music or text, the model of unlimited access subscription is doing oil slick, imposing a profound renewal of the entire economy of the content. While many critics are speaking out against this development, yet it is both inevitable and potentially positive.

First, it should be noted that the “plateformisation” cultural goods responds to changes in consumer behavior: whether delinearization, in the case of the video, or read the card, in the books, demand is characterized by a desire to control the entire time, place and product consumed, and at a low price or less accessible. This involves the ability of broadcasters to offer a range of increasingly large and constantly on all possible media.

The unknown funding the creation

This mutation consumption that meet the platforms dynamite subscription traditional economic equilibrium: for creators and providers participating directly in the creation – be they authors or technical assistance to companies filming – the development of a dominant marketing through not by selling any immediate action, but by inclusion in a catalog available on subscription will be a major event

mode.

The financing of creation is already become the main unknown of the future ecosystem. In the case of free audiovisual offer, it is clear that, faced with reducing their ad revenues, traditional broadcasters will not be able to maintain their pre-financing. They will conduct more than targeted funding for beaches with a large audience. For the rest of the grid, they will simply make available “pipe diffusion” to the already funded, by practicing such sharing additional advertising revenues in partnership with advertisers and producers.

Deleting intermediate

In the case of paying, the pattern of distribution of value is to fully rebuild. While a Netflix has made it clear it would not participate in the French system – but that it would produce its own fictions with its proven from House of Cards methods – Two points can be made. On the one hand hyper ecosystem protected French cultural products will be blasted: with the expected mass defection of consumers now choosing to read or watch on subscription instead of buying the act, the conventional system will collapse under its own weight for lack of revenue.

On the other hand, and this is reassuring, it is clear that new platforms are conscious of the need for attractive content. One way or another, new ways of financing the creation will thus emerge. We can thus expect a change in how the value is allocated within the sector. And it will probably be advisable if we think of the case of the book, how to understand such a book sold 20 euros in euro bookstore reports only to the author? By offering authors to edit directly and refund 100% of their proceeds, Amazon announced a deal in which the property will be both cheaper and more profitable for rights holders, through the elimination of intermediaries – sorry them.

Audiovisual must react

In broadcasting, the problem will be more acute that it will be difficult to avoid an increase in asymmetric relations between downstream and upstream of the creative industry. Like any situation of extreme concentration, the risk would be that the actor placed in a strong position exploits its market power to impose other unconscionable conditions -. Example unusually low compensation for rights holders

Given what constitutes a complete makeover of its ecosystem, the industry image should, from the beginning of September, make a concerted effort by all stakeholders to refine its new business model, otherwise it emerge only at the risk of being particularly unbalanced.

Amazon Kindle sells off its less than 30 euros this week – MetroNews

Amazon Google competition in the book market by partnering with Barnes & amp; Noble

In the United States, eager readers in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles are spoiled for choice. Indeed, they can be sent home items in the same day, provided the order on Amazon’s site, and now on the Google Shopping Express via Barnes & amp; Noble. Speed ​​but not free for subscribers …

Confidentially, dual storage Amazon Kindle Paperwhite – Le Journal du Geek

Without warning or telling anyone, Amazon began marketing a new model of Kindle Paperwhite, one of the best e-readers on the market.

There is nothing revolutionary: the device retains its 6-inch screen backlit which made its success, its processor 25% faster than previous generations. The functions are identical, intelligent search interactive vocabulary. Even the price (129 euros) has not moved. So

Amazon has just doubled the available storage. 2GB or 1,000 digital books, the Kindle Paperwhite is increased to 4 GB. But that does not make it a “ new product ,” says the dealer. It is therefore not a new generation, one might think, would have been a real presentation.

The device is currently being deployed around the world, even if it seems that in France, we are still in the 2013 release.

$ 9.99 unlimited access to books: how Kindle is about to kill authors and … – Le Nouvel Observateur

Kindle replace he eventually books? (FLICKR / KODOMUT)

Providing £ 650,000 per month to 9.99 dollars: a bargain, you might say. Maybe? The wide access to culture is still respectable, but half a million “in the bush” (streaming!) They worth better than one “like”? That is the question. Naïve? not that much.

The quality of the works will not save libraries

The new offer Unlimited Kindle is not a simple marketing offers. It is symptomatic of a mode of mass consumption, which takes on new forms, insidiously extended into the field of culture. Hypermarket 70s marketing on the net by the giants of all consumer goods, paid streaming becomes the inevitable toll for music, film and book soon.

Our major our major booksellers and publishers are misguided lorqu’ils thought that the quality of content being a strong protection to their sad decline.

Consider a digital book as a good material consumption, this is where the big mistake.

Without support, control its dissemination is impossible. And our laws Hadopi: anti-sharing, anti-robbery with threat of sanctions, do much smiling teenagers and even older

A blasting rule. book market

Ultimately, the subscription offer in unlimited form probably cover all the catalogs literary works because it necessarily leads to forms monopolies. The question is who will be the lucky guy? Deezer, Spotify paved the way for music. Netfix for television series. Oyster and Scribd for books …

Cultural industries were quick to spread the principle of global license, shared financing system based on a premium internet subscription. Probably rightly, given the complexity of repayment rights holders.

If the “unlimited subscription ephemeral” model becomes the rule, and it seems inevitable, it’s a blast from the profession looming. The traps are everywhere.

Authors, publishers, readers, all are losers

The authors first. It is as if the entire ecosystem of this market was based only on the perfect harmony of supply and demand: the seller / player regardless of the primary actors, specifically the authors

.

What to expect? No immediate cash, or nearly out of pre-financing, but weighted weak and smoothed related to consulting a catalog subscription revenue. Price to pay for writers, cheap for readers too, I must admit. But at what price

Publishers: it is their outright disappearance. Considered useless (if not harmful), since they pump circuit the book economy. One can think what they like for their crimes – nepotism, commercial facility, duplicity, pressure distribution networks, they are nevertheless the only guarantors of a knowledge which revealed some major

. readers of geese that glutton (almost) free with great fanfare guides, advice, recommendations made by those marketing books. Objectivity rigor. Culture galore for suckers; it well enough.

Internet, route of compromise?

Between culture mass not mastered, and elite culture refuge in his ivory tower, there no other way? Internet also seems the perfect medium to highlight quality work that editing can not handle, talents forgotten or undisclosed profitability requirements that exclude forgotten or new forms of literature: poetry, new soap operas, rap, calligrammes …

bet that small sites will exploit these resources. Be small condemns creativity. That is the hope.

Mathieu Damiens posted August 15, 2014 at 17:35

Does the unlimited pass to the movies killed the cinema?
Hmm I ‘m not sure (I do not have the answer). I feel that it has brought more people into theaters.

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Kindle rival is French … – Lavoixdefrance.fr

Who says the French could not compete against the giants of Silicon Valley and the Japanese electronics specialists? Who dared to declare that the French companies were unable to locate in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) at the nose and beard of American or Asian multinationals? The same day the giant Sony announced its decision to abandon the market for e-readers, Parisian society Bookeen revealed signing a huge contract with the first Brazilian Bookseller Saraiva for him to produce two models marketed price of 299 reais (99 euros) and 158 euros.

This is the first important that the SME founded in 2003 sign outside Europe contract. “We are excited to partner with Saraiva , the leader playing in Brazil is delighted Michael Dahan , the co-founder of Bookeen . We brought our experience and technological know-how as part of this collaboration. Solution Saraiva is the best digital reading market. The customers Saraiva will therefore find in stores how supply Saraiva Lev is competitive. “

Brazil is a growing market for the French company. If book sales in this country are less important than the hex, it should flow this year more tablets in the country (10.7 million units, according to IDC) in France. Another advantage: Amazon and Kindle have not “swallowed up” book sales (both physical and digital) in this nation that continues to be dominated by local players. In order to try to fight against the “monster” of online sales or Apple or even the Japanese Rakuten Bookeen has chosen not to address the general public but to distributors in a strategy BtoB.

active in approximately 50 countries, the company that completed a fifteen million of revenue (it does not publish its financial data) recorded more than half of its revenues abroad before looping the end of 2013 a partnership with Carrefour ( Nolimbook of the distributor are “Made in” Bookeen ). Since its inception, the company has produced more than 400,000 e-readers. And the best is yet to come …

The Last year, 6.5 million e-readers or devices have been sold worldwide. Sales of digital books have exploded by 69% in twelve months (€ 190 million) while those books “classics” are expected to decline by 1% per year to 3.8 billion euros in 2017 against 4000000000 present day. Within three years, the firm Xerfi believes that the number of e-books in circulation will increase by 20% each year. Bookeen still has a bright future ahead of him …

Feedback from the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite – Deballer.com

Posted on 13.08.2014 in category Crash

After unpacking the latest touch-reader from Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and its protective cover Fosmon, it is now time to do a little feedback from the thing.

On paper everything looks wonderful in this Kindle Paperwhite, touchscreen, backlight, lightness and durability.

We will address these points quickly without writing a monumental history of pavement avoid getting a headache. After all the goal here is whether this reading light is worthwhile or not

I have read about it on a blog a feedback rather atypical tell us where the person leaves an incredible number of arguments to push the Kindle. I think this person should really have incredible expectations to reach an iPad and want to compare a reading light.

Touch Screen
I am not a supporter of Amazon but compare like with like, a touch pad, gender iPad, has a LCD screen which is perfect for watching any kind of multimedia content.

Kindle reading light c is an e-ink screen displaying only shades of black, so needless to come crying if you can not watch videos …

But big plus especially novelty, Kindle Paperwhite has a touch screen, and it really changes everything. I have used previous versions and I agaçais the noise made the buttons to change pages.

I quibble much about this, but when it’s late you have to press it every 45 seconds it quickly becomes tiresome.

In playback mode, the touch screen is divided into four sections, the top one for different playback options such as adjusting the brightness, the bottom for rapid advancement in the current book, and both sides to change the page.

To turn the pages can swiper the screen or press a while on both sides, which is perfect ! The latency is good, personally I find the reactant (I remind you that it compares the Kindle to a table eh!).

Lighting
Again Amazon has done things and integrates with touch screen a handy backlight system that can be adjusted according to a score of different levels.

No more different covers with LED system positioned above the screen which unfortunately does not cover the entire page read and adds weight to the set.

The system Amazon lighting is not flawless, I find it really unfortunate that it takes as much about the blue light has the color which makes the experience a bit uncomfortable after a while.

Also I would say that the screen is certainly well-lit, but it still lacks a bit of light around the edges, but you really have to be picky to dare say that

Weight
Once again Amazon has nailed it; a reading light system with touch screen and built as light lighting is just awesome

The Kindle can ship anywhere, it is really quiet and does not tire the hand after several hours of reading with 213 grams

The size is admittedly limited but with all this weight works really well; I’m still waiting to see one day the appearance of a 10-inch minimum size reading light and capable of displaying color story to read comics on it, I dream

This is strong
Amazon has proved in the past its hardware is solid, the Kindle does not seem to precious and material used appears to be rigid .

When you hold it in hand we have a solid feel which is reassuring when you share a ride with a backpack stuffed to the brim.

In the end the Kindle Paperwhite is THE liseuse the time, it has many advantages and has not really disappointed me, I think just a pity that the backlight is not as good as expected.

In addition, thing strange you can not turn it off completely, there is still a very small part of brightness. I think it is voluntary on the part of Amazon for those who read at night and turn on their reading light in total darkness.

Michael Déballer.com

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