In March 2011, Bookstep launched to provide on-demand, digital textbook rentals to students, so they only pay for what they need.
Need To Know: Amazon Offers Kindle Textbook Rental
Amazon Kindle launches a textbook rental platform with thousands of titles, cloud storage for notes and highlights.
Enhancing E-book Purchases: Consumer Driven Models From the Text Book Industry
By John Konczal, Global Industry Executive, Sterling Commerce, an IBM Company When the mere act of delivering content digitally isn’t enough, textbook publishers are coming up with new sales models for digital content. Thanks to the emergence of the Kindle and other electronic reading devices, today’s consumer can choose from a multitude of ways to consume content with multiple delivery …
Could E-book Rentals Ever Be Viable for Trade Publishers?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s feature story looks at some of the consumer driven e-book models being implemented by text book publishers. One of those is book rental, where a student can rent a textbook at the fraction of the cost of buying the book. In textbook publishing, where books can run to the hundreds of dollars for a single specialized …
How Book Rental Service BookSwim Refined its Recommendation Engine
By Nick Ruffilo, CIO/CTO BookSwim.com I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion around metadata and its power, but numbers that confirm its usefulness are rarely announced. Six months ago, BookSwim.com rebuilt its search and recommendation engine. The results from the upgrades were mind-boggling. BookSwim is an online subscription book rental club. Members can rent unlimited titles from our catalog by …
Bookswim.com’s Top 20 Rentals
US Book rental service Bookswim.com offers their Top 20 rentals for the week… #1 – Safe Haven #2 – Wicked Appetite #3 – Freedom: A Novel #4 – Room: A Novel #5 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo #6 – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest #7 – I’d Know You Anywhere: A Novel #8 – The Girl …
BookSwim.com Aims for Sweet Spot of American Readers
• BookSwim’s proprietary data shows that 80% of its users are library users and high income suburban women who read between 40 and 50 books per year — and buy as many as 30. • An analysis of reading habits reveals that BookSwim’s subscribers don’t tend to read in isolated silos. Instead, readers are just as likely to sample numerous …