Media and tech companies have been quick to pronounce the “Netflix of eBooks” -- a.k.a. the subscription model -- the future of digital content. And, in theory, that makes sense. Who doesn’t want ...

Subscription services for digital music, movies, and TV shows are all very popular nowadays, but for ebooks, they aren’t. Although ebook subscription services have existed for several years, they have ...

Check out four things that have happened in the ebook world in just the past couple months: — Amazon announced that, for the self-published titles in its Kindle Unlimited subscription program, it’s ...

About two years after launching a “Netflix for eBooks” service, the folks at Oyster are calling it quits. The team announced on its blog that they’re “taking steps to sunset the existing Oyster ...

Nearly a decade after Amazon launched its Kindle Unlimited service that lets you pay a monthly fee for access to a library of millions of eBooks (and a smaller number of audiobooks), rival Kobo is ...

At an IDPF and BISG panel today as part of its Making Information Pay event, speakers addressed one of the key changes the publishing industry is undergoing: ebook subscriptions. When 24Symbols ...

About a month ago, John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers, complained in a blog post that Amazon had an unfair stranglehold on their distribution channels, and that Macmillan might consider ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Oyster has ...

Streaming services like Netflix and Spotify have already changed the way we watch movies and listen to music, but book subscription services have taken a little longer to catch on. Now it looks like ...

On Wednesday, a webpage for Kindle Unlimited—a subscription service where users can “enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month,” ...

Once a non-starter among publishers, authors and agents, all-you-can-read ebook subscription services have arrived. Businesses like Oyster and Scribd, dubbed the "Spotify" or "Netflix of ebooks," are ...