Yesterday, Good e-Reader broke the news that Penguin Random House, one of the largest publishers in the world were removing audiobooks and ebooks from unlimited platforms all over the world. This included companies like Bookbeat from the United Kingdom, Storytel from Sweden and also Nextory. Scribd is one of the largest unlimited platforms in the world, they have over one … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House is removing audiobooks from Scribd
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Penguin Random House removes ebooks from Unlimited Platforms
Penguin Random House has just pulled all of their English and Spanish ebook titles from various online unlimited services. This includes Bookbeat, Nextory, Scribd and Storytel. The publisher confirmed the change with Good e-Reader, "at this point in time, Penguin Random House has decided that we will not participate in subscription models with unlimited access. Our decision was … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House removes ebooks from Unlimited Platforms
Penguin Random House is changing their terms for library ebooks
Penguin Random House is one of the largest publishers in the world and they are responsible for one quarter of all books released every year. They have been doing business with libraries for many years under the unlimited model, where libraries pay more for an ebook, but retain the rights to it forever. PRH is now changing this arrangement and going to a metered approach, where … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House is changing their terms for library ebooks
Penguin Random House Canada Launches Internal Audiobook Program
Penguin Random House Canada has launched their own internal audiobook unit to produce a number of new titles. Seventeen PRHC titles, including 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize nominees Gary Barwin’s Yiddish for Pirates and Mona Awad’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, are now available on Audible Canada and Kobo Audiobooks. Penguin Random House Canada's first set of … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House Canada Launches Internal Audiobook Program
Penguin’s Read A Book, Give A Book Opportunity
There's a great commercial right now featuring a man who goes through his daily life and keeps encountering worthy causes: a puppy from the shelter, a teenager who needs a mentor, a homeless veteran, even a polar bear whose habitat is disappearing. The point is that there are great needs all around us, but that the first step is to choose a way to help and get started. And … [Read more...] about Penguin’s Read A Book, Give A Book Opportunity
Penguin Random House is going to pay off their employee Student Loans
Penguin Random House is the largest book publisher in the United States and they want to offer a reason for students fresh out of school to come and work for them. Starting next year they will initiate a new program to help pay down student loans. “I know all too well that student loan debt burdens a great deal of our colleagues at Penguin Random House, and increasingly, … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House is going to pay off their employee Student Loans
Penguin Boss Admits Their Focus on e-Books was an Error
Penguin Random House is responsible for nearly a quarter of all books currently being published and were an early adopter of e-books. Joanna Prior, the managing director of Penguin’s general books, said the firm jumped the gun and incorrectly pre-empted a major shift towards digital books. “There was a definite moment when we all went shooting out after the shiny app thing … [Read more...] about Penguin Boss Admits Their Focus on e-Books was an Error
Penguin Random House Refuses to Divulge e-Book Sales
This week the vast majority of major publishers have released financial figures for the first six months of 2016. Simon & Schuster and Hachette experienced declines in e-book sales and gave generalized figures. Things are so bad at Penguin Random House that they did not even break down digital sales, they merely said there was a "reduced demand for e-books." The U.S. … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House Refuses to Divulge e-Book Sales
Penguin Random House Reports 25% of Revenue is from e-Books
Penguin Random House has just reported a 23.7% increase in operating EBITDA in 2015 over 2014 and an 11.8% rise in revenue. The company also reported that they generated over €3.32 billion in book sales. How much of this revenue stemmed from e-books? Sadly, the publisher did not break down the numbers but did admit that they accounted for 25% of their global revenue. One of … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House Reports 25% of Revenue is from e-Books
Penguin Random House are getting behind Editions At Play e-books
Google Editions At Play is a new digital book platform that showcase titles with interactive features and are not meant to be printed. The project launched in February with a pair of new titles: Entrances & Exits by Reif Larsen, and The Truth About Cats & Dogs by Sam Riviere and Joe Dunthorne. The first is essentially a point-and-click adventure game in Google Street … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House are getting behind Editions At Play e-books
EBSCO Now Offers Penguin Random House e-books
EBSCO has just announced that they have signed a digital distribution deal with Penguin Random House. Libraries that do business with EBSCO will be able to select from 21,000 fiction and nonfiction ebook titles. The ebooks are featured in several collections, including Popular Adult Fiction; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Fiction; and Popular Adult Nonfiction. Libraries … [Read more...] about EBSCO Now Offers Penguin Random House e-books
Penguin Random House has Sold Author Solutions
Author Solutions is one of the most hated companies in the self-publishing arena because they prey on new writers and sell them packages that range between $3,000 and $12,000 dollars. Their promise is to get your book sold, and authors have reported that their telemarketers harass them on a daily basis trying to get them to spend more money. The animosity was so great, that … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House has Sold Author Solutions
Librarians are excited about e-books that don’t expire
Penguin and Random House will be introducing new e-book terms for libraries that begin on January 1st 2016. Libraries will no longer worry about their titles expiring after a few loans or have to purchase them again every year. Librarians are also full of glee that the overall price of buying digital content will also decrease in price. Shellie Cocking of the San Francisco … [Read more...] about Librarians are excited about e-books that don’t expire
Penguin Random House announces new e-Book terms for libraries
Penguin Random House has consolidated their internal library division under a single banner. The publisher has been working very hard on making themselves more appealing for libraries. After months of work they finally have developed new terms for e-Book licenses sold to libraries, schools and 3rd party distributors. Starting January 1, 2016, all Penguin and Random House … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House announces new e-Book terms for libraries