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Kobo Plus Subscription service hits Canada
Well, Canada, anyway...
It was previously only available in Belgium and the Netherlands. Maybe the US will be next? From The Digital Reader: https://the-digital-reader.com/2020/...nada/#comments More at the source. Quote:
Payment is based on reading time rather than pages read. https://kobowritinglife.zendesk.com/...ay-publishers- Quote:
I suppose they went by time so speed readers can't clean then out? Not sure how much creators might net but something is better than nothing so it might serve as a replacement for permafree. So, anybody interested in seeing it in the US? |
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The minute count is a rolling tally across multiple books and multiple readers. If a publisher tallies up, say, 35,787, they'll get paid for 35,500. With the rest to be rolled over to the next month tally. Maybe. |
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One understimated side effect of these subscriptions is that people can be more adventurous at zero cost, try unknown authors or genres, risk free. And this often results in added sales atop the rental income. And it substitutes for permafree titles that often get downloaded to be read...some day... Some authors refer to KU as marketing that pays instead of costing. Obviously it's meanless for the Pattersons and Kings of the world but for unknown newcomers it's a way to build a fanbase. And for readers it's protection against the "three chapter wonders". On the gaming side, many game publishers are reporting big increases in sales during and shortly after a stint on MS GAME PASS. Games, of course have variable replay value so subscribers not only get to try a game to see what it's like (which could be achieved with a limited demo) but can play it fully and decide if it's sorth buying to replay multiple times (different protagonists, different tactics, etc). Plus subscription members get a discount on purchases. It's working well for everybody: developers, subscribers, and Microsoft. |
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Same here. I suspect even if I could subscribe to the mythical global library that had electric copies of every book every written, I would still buy copies of my favorite authors and books. It would simply mean that I could sample an author first before buying.
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The topic while not exactly wrong, is very misleading. It makes one thing Kobo Plus is coming to the USA. Please ask a moderator to fix this to say Canada instead of North America.
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I think maybe you should fix your thinking to understand that North America factually includes both Canada and the United States. We don't own the whole continent. We just act like we do.
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Plus the service is being released in phases. Are we to start another thread when/if it moves south? |
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Any northern boundary to Central America seems arbitrary to me, but Cuba is an island.
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I know what North America includes. But we already knew Kobo Plus was gong to be in Canada. That's why the title makes one think of America.
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