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| Dec 31, 2015 | 2015 Was the Year the Literary Versus Genre War Ended | Kazuo Ishiguro. Photo by Jeff Cottenden/Courtesy of Knopf
The first big literary dust-up of 2015 occurred when Kazuo Ishiguro expressed worry that some of his fans would be put off by his new novel: "Will they be prejudiced against the... |
| Nov 11, 2015 | On The Dark Matter Of The Publishing Industry | Len Epp Contributor
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Recently there were a pair of revealing eruptions in the world of ebooks and the volatile book publishing industry more generally.
The first was the announce... |
| Oct 12, 2015 | Oyster’s Sunset Shows Subscriptions Alone Won’t Address Challenges Of Ad Blocking | Joe Hyrkin Contributor
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Oyster, the “Netflix for books,” made headlines when the company announced it was shutting down. News then broke that Oyster’s co-founders and CEO would be joining the Google Play Books tea... |
| Sep 26, 2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 9/26/15 | Google acqui-hired Oyster; 4chan was sold off; FanDuel bought AlphaDraft; Gartner acquired Capterra
Sterlite Technologies, a power & telecom products manufacturer, entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Elitecore Tec... |
| Sep 22, 2015 | As the UK’s Oyster, a ‘Netflix-for-books’ shuts down, the co-founders head to Google | On Monday, Oyster, the UK-based 'Netflix-for-books' announced in a blog post that it was shutting down their existing service but that they were looking forward to "taking on new opportunities to fully realise our vision for e-books.”
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| Sep 22, 2015 | Google hires the team from ebook company Oyster | Members of the team have joined Google Play Books; Oyster will be shutting down in a few months
I can write pretty fast (hey, it's my job!) but I am not a very fast reader. Maybe it's because I don't find much time to actually sit down and ... |
| Sep 22, 2015 | Oyster’s ‘Netflix for E-Books’ Dream is Dead | A company that wanted to become the "Netflix for e-books" is no more.
Oyster said in a blog post last night that it was "taking steps to sunset," which is startup talk for closing up shop. The service launched in 2013 as... |
| Sep 21, 2015 | E-Book App Oyster To Shut Down, Team Members Will Join Google Play Books | E-bookworms now have one less option. Oyster, which launched its “Netflix for books” app two years ago, announced in a blog post that it will close down the service by early 2016. A Google representative confirmed that “much of the Oyster t... |
| Aug 10, 2015 | Unlimited subscriptions are great for your customers — here’s how to make them work for you, too | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A number of brave companies are going out on a li... |
| Aug 10, 2015 | Unlimited subscriptions are great for your customers — here’s how to make them work for you, too | A number of brave companies are going out on a limb and offering an all-you-can-eat (AYCE) subscription service or product. With the AYCE model, the idea is to generate high revenue by offering great value for money. These models primarily ... |
| May 29, 2015 | Glose Brings Its Social Ebook Reader To Android, Adds Free Excerpts | Glose is a brand new take on ebook reading for phones and tablets. Yet, until today, one thing was crucially missing — Android support. Today, the company is launching its app on Android phones and tablets. It is also adding free book excer... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Oyster Expands Its “Netflix For Books” Service With A New E-Book Store | Oyster launched a couple of years ago as a Netflix-style service for e-books, charging $9.95 a month for unlimited access to a library that has grown to more than 1 million titles. Today it’s expanding that model by launching its own e-book... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Oyster starts charging for some books individually after inking new publisher deals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ebook subscription startup Oyster is taking a pre... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Oyster Is Taking On Amazon By Launching E-Book Store Alongside Subscription Service | Fergal Gallagher, Tech Times 08 April 2015, 03:04 pm
Oyster's online catalog contains a lot of books, more than a million — but if your interest isn't piqued by that selection, you can now purchase extra books on the company's new online di... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Oyster starts charging for some books individually after inking new publisher deals | Ebook subscription startup Oyster is taking a pretty big risk today.
The company, often called a “Netflix for ebooks,” finally won over the last two of the “big 5” publishers: Penguin Random House and Hachette. But in the process, the compa... |
| Mar 24, 2015 | E-Book Startup Oyster Hires Jeannie Mun As Its First CFO | Oyster, a Netflix-style service for e-books, has brought on its first chief financial officer, Jeannie Mun.
Before joining Oyster, Mun spent a lot of time in the ad world, having recently served as CFO at ad company MediaMath, and before th... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | Oyster Brings The Harry Potter Series To Its Subscription E-Book Service | Oyster, which offers unlimited access to more than 1 million e-books for $9.95 a month, just announced it’s adding the Harry Potter series to its library.
To do this, it’s partnering with the website Pottermore (which has been getting atten... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Macmillan signs ebook subscription deals with Scribd, Oyster | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Major book publisher Macmillan is warming up to t... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Macmillan signs ebook subscription deals with Scribd, Oyster | Major book publisher Macmillan is warming up to the growing world of book subscriptions, announcing today that it will provide hundreds of its most popular book titles to unlimited e-book subscription services Scribd and Oyster.
The move sh... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Publisher Macmillan Signs On With E-Book Subscription Services Oyster And Scribd | Macmillan, one of the “Big Five” book publishers in the United States, is making its titles available on subscription e-book services Oyster and Scribd, starting today.
The news isn’t exactly a surprise, since Macmillan CEO John Sargent wro... |
| Dec 27, 2014 | Find Free eBooks for Your New Kindle and iPad | If you were given a new iPad, Kindle or any other eReader this holiday, it's time to fill it with great books. You can find some great free eBooks or audiobooks online for your new eReader.
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| Dec 8, 2014 | The Risks and Opportunities in a Startup: Age 5 Years and Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In my last two articles, I explored the top risks and opportunities that startups face during their first five years of existence. In this conclusion to the series, I’d like t... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: How to get people to pay for what they used to own | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Some days it feels as though the tech industry is... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: How to get people to pay for what they used to own | Some days it feels as though the tech industry is busily finding ways to make us pay for things that used to be free, rent us things we used to own, and entice us to create things for the benefit of companies that don’t care about us.
I’ll ... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | What you should know about Kindle Unlimited | The new book-borrowing service Amazon (AMZN) announced last week, Kindle Unlimited, is a close cousin to Amazon Prime Music. Both posit the question, "Why buy content when you can pay one price to consume as much as you want?"
Bef... |
| Jul 19, 2014 | How The Big 5 Publishers Hobbled The Amazon Unlimited Launch | Amazon Unlimited was dubbed the Netflix of books. That is correct as long as you imagine a Netflix consisting of an endless array of low-budget indie releases and some major small-studio films. In truth, Amazon’s new $9.99 all-you-can-read ... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | Amazon Just Launched 'Kindle Unlimited,' a Subscription Service for E-Books | The online retail giant Amazon announced Friday it’s launching an e-book subscription service called “Kindle Unlimited.”
Kindle Unlimited lets Amazon customers pay $9.99 every month for unlimited access to 600,000 titles plus more than 2,00... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited, a subscription to half a million books for $10 per month | After pulling the trigger a little early, Amazon today formally announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited, an ebook and audiobook subscription service that costs $10 per month.
As we detailed yesterday, this launch pits Amazon against servic... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | How To Tell If Amazon’s Netflix For Books Is For You | My Amazon Kindle has me pegged. I have the ad-supported Paperwhite, which means anytime my Kindle sleeps, it shows me an advertisement for a book Amazon thinks I’d like to read. More often than not, it’s correct, and I’ll click on the ad an... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited, a subscription to half a million books for $10 per month | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After pulling the trigger a little early, Amazon ... |
| Jul 17, 2014 | Amazon Isn’t Killing Writing, The Market Is | Amazon’s war on publishers reached a crescendo yesterday with the leak of Kindle Unlimited, a subscription plan that would allow readers to pay $9.99 per month for unlimited access to the Kindle ebook library. No longer content with simply ... |
| Jul 1, 2014 | Reading Habits Indicate Android Users Are Fun, iPhone Users Are Lifehacking Megalomanics | (Photo via Ryanne Lai)
In the war between iOS and Android, there are a few things we know: iPhone users are big spenders, live in more affluent neighborhoods and are vastly outnumbered by their Android counterparts. But now, we also intimat... |
| Jun 17, 2014 | Oyster Brings Its Netflix For Books To Android | New York-based startup Oyster just released its reading app for Android devices — the app works on both phones and tablets, such as the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire.
As a reminder, Oyster is an unlimited subscription service for ebooks. For $9.95... |
| May 23, 2014 | Freshly Minted: For This Book Subscription Platform, The Publishing World Is Their Oyster | (via Oyster)
Welcome to Freshly Minted, where we examine an overlooked deal or funding announcement in tech from the past week, and tell you what you need to know, and why it matters.
This week’s deal: Oyster, the Netflix for books, signed ... |
| May 22, 2014 | The Netflix For Children’s Books Adds 1000 Titles From HarperCollins | (Photo via Brad Flickinger, CC-BY-2.0)
Epic!, a subscription app for children’s books, just closed a deal with HarperCollins that will give its subscribers access to over 1000 books, including classics like The Chronicles of Narnia, Frog an... |
| May 8, 2014 | Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Crosses 500K Titles, Plans An Android Launch This Year | Oyster, a startup that offers offers unlimited access to its collection of e-books for $9.99 per month, has crossed a nice milestone — it says its library now includes 500,000 books, compared to 100,000 when it launched in September of last... |
| May 8, 2014 | Oyster, the Netflix for e-books, tops half a million titles & looks to get social | E-book subscription service Oyster just fattened up its catalog.
After raising a total of $17 million to bring the Netflix model to e-books, Oyster is taking a moment to bask in its early success: the startup just surpassed half a million t... |
| Apr 13, 2014 | Entitle Brings Its Subscription E-Books To E-Ink Readers, Including The Nook | When e-book service Entitle launched last December, one of the main selling points was the idea that subscribers truly own their books. Now the company says it has given users even more control by allowing them to transfer books to their No... |
| Jan 16, 2014 | Easy Budgeting App Level Launches Android Version | Out of all the financial planning apps I’ve tried, Level is one that I like best. The app, which bills itself as a “real-time money meter” has data visualizations that let me know at a glance how much money I have left to spend and still st... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Oyster Closes $14M Funding | Oyster, a New York City-based Oyster is an ebook subscription service, closed a $14m funding round.
The round was led by Highland Capital Partners with participation from Founders Fund, SV Angel, Advancit Capital, BoxGroup and Founder Colle... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | Holiday gift guide: 7 last-minute gifts for techies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, that special techie in your life deserves something awesome.
Oh, you haven’t gotten anyth... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Startups Pitching A “Netflix For E-Books” May Have A Tough Sell | When it comes to getting consumers to pay for things on a subscription basis, some services fare better than others. A growing number of people seem happy to pay for entertainment-based offerings like Netflix or on-demand streaming music, f... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Oyster opens up, launches iPad app to bring Netflix model to e-books | Oyster hopes you’ll binge on books the same way you gorged on the last season of Arrested Development.
This morning, the e-book subscription company opened to the public — no more invites necessary. It also launched an iPad app, which featu... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Oyster opens up, launches iPad app to bring Netflix model to e-books | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Oyster hopes you’ll binge on books the same way you gorged on the last season of Arrested Development.
This morning, the e-book subscri... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | This Incredible App Could Change How You Read Books Forever | Oyster Oyster is a new app launched last week, that wants to for books what Spotify did for music and Netflix for film and TV. For a monthly fee of $9.95, you can access over 100,000 titles from various publishers, and share what you're rea... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | This Incredible App Could Change How You Read Books Forever | Oyster Oyster is a new app launched last week, that wants to for books what Spotify did for music and Netflix for film and TV. For a monthly fee of $9.95, you can access over 100,000 titles from various publishers, and share what you're rea... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Oyster: Like Netflix for books | People have had access to movie and music streaming services on their smartphones for a while now, but a new company is trying to do the same with books.
Reading books on a mobile device is old-hat. And it used to require that each book be ... |
| Sep 8, 2013 | Our dream library: Unlimited e-books for less than $10 a month | reader comments 82 with 65 posters participating
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| Sep 5, 2013 | With 100K Titles In Tow, Oyster Brings Netflix To Book Lovers With New All-You-Can-Read Subscription Service | While the pace has slowed of late, thanks to Kindles, Nooks, iPads and the steady advance of mobile technology, the eBook market (and the demand for all shades of digital prose) has grown exponentially over the past few years. According to ... |
| Tudo o que você precisa saber sobre o Kindle Unlimited, o “Netflix de livros” da Amazon | A Amazon confirmou as expectativas e lançou, nesta sexta-feira (18), o Kindle Unlimited, um serviço que oferece acesso ilimitado a um catálogo de mais de 600 mil ebooks e milhares de audiobooks com uma assinatura mensal de US$ 9,99. Sem pra... |