06-01-2013, 03:37 AM | #1 |
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A new ebook subscription service is to be launched in Denmark later this year according to this story in The Copenhagen Post.
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06-01-2013, 03:57 AM | #2 |
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I've been wanting this for years. It makes perfect sense to me, provided that the catalogue is comprehensive. I use subscription music and video services already; books are no different.
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The problem with a service such as this is that while many people listen to thousands of songs every year, and watch hours of TV every day (hence find a music/vieo subscription service of genuine use) the number of people who read more than a handful of books in a year is very small. I suspect that a book subscription service will not prove to be commercially viable. I may be wrong. I hope I am wrong. Time will tell.
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Amazon do indeed have the Kindle lending library, but it's primarily only available for independent authors, and hence of little interest to me. The big publishers are - entirely understandably - reluctant to sign up for it.
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There have been successful pBook subscription deals for years. The question is if it will transfer OK to eBooks. Pricing will be the key.
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100 Krone is about $17.41 a month. Some may find that reasonable.
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Scale may be an issue - both in favour and against the liklihood of this working. There are about 5.5 million people who speak and read Danish in the world - and most of them are in Denmark. Print books in Danish are therefore never going to have a huge circulation. For publishers anything that saves cost is going to be a good thing - warehousing and distribution of physical goods in DK is expensive because of high labour costs, high energy costs and high taxes. Given these high costs and low circulation it maybe that ebook subscriptions make more sense than they would in different markets.
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