Amazon’s senior vice president for Kindle

We can all observe the fact that in every single digital media category subscriptions is playing an important role—in music, in movies, in newspapers—you cannot find a digital medium where subscription isn’t a model that succeeds at some level, and I don’t think books will be immune to this. Immune is even the wrong word, because it makes it sound like they’re necessarily a bad thing, and I don’t think that’s true. So what we need to do is think about how subscription can be a great value for the customers who participate but grow the business and be incremental to it.

Digital Book World 2015 agenda

“Kindle Head Russ Grandinetti Offers the View from Amazon at Digital Book World 2015†at Digital Book World – January 14, 2015

My liveblog of Russ Grandinetti’s presentation at Digital Book World

“Russ Grandinetti: Consumers Spend More on eBooks After Joining Kindle Unlimited” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader – January 14, 2015

“Amazon is the Reader’s Friend,†a debate on January 15, 2015, to be hosted by Intelligence Squared at the Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street in New York

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