{"id":289336,"date":"2012-02-23T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/02\/23\/and-there-it-is\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:43","slug":"and-there-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/02\/23\/and-there-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And There It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been predicting this for a while, and still think a Spotify for ebooks would be a $1million idea. (Or a $1million bankruptcy. Whatever.) Anyway, from <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2012\/02\/booquo-launches-e9-99-subscription-e-book-club-in-spain\/\">today&#8217;s Publishing Perspectives:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everything you can read in a month for just \u20ac9.99 sounds like a good deal, doesn\u2019t it? That is what Booquo, the new digital venture of Circulo de Lectores \u2014 the book club owned by publishing giants Planeta and Bertelsmann \u2014 is offering, making them among the few brave enough to tread the forbidden path of access vs. ownership that frightens so many print publishers in this digital age. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Booquo has two business models \u2014 conventional and subscription. The first allows you to rent movies (from a selection of 1,000) and buy e-books (some 10,000 titles are on offer) that is open to anybody who visits the site. This shop, which functions like any other e-retailer, has a partnership with Filmin for the movie rentals and uses the e-distributor Libranda (of which Planeta and Bertelsmann are main shareholders) for downloadable e-books, which are sold at the same fixed price that anybody will find at Amazon Spain or Casa del Libro. The second is the \u201cclub,\u201d which offers a one month trial subscription of \u20ac 0,99 in an opt-out system that will charge your credit card \u20ac9,99 per month thereafter till the account is cancelled.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/29-chejfec#mytwoworlds\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/755.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been predicting this for a while, and still think a Spotify for ebooks would be a $1million idea. (Or a $1million bankruptcy. Whatever.) Anyway, from today&#8217;s Publishing Perspectives: Everything you can read in a month for just \u20ac9.99 sounds like a good deal, doesn\u2019t it? That is what Booquo, the new digital venture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[45636,14906,24256],"class_list":["post-289336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-booquo","tag-future-of-reading","tag-publishing-perspectives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289336\/revisions\/341686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}