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The e-book subscription market hasn’t had the best year: Oyster closed and Scribd scaled back its romance library. But Playster hopes to make the e-book subscription business work by offering e-books as part of a cross media content platform.
The site includes unlimited access to books, audio books, video games, music, movies and TV shows. Subscribers can pay $24.95 to access all of this media or choose an ala carte option and pay per service (books cost $14.50 a month). As part of the launch Playster is offering a free tablet and headphones to anyone that subscribes for one year to the unlimited entertainment platform.
Playster’s top publisher partners include: Findaway, Harlequin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster among others. Book titles available on the platform include: American Sniper by Chris Kyle; God: A Story of Revelation by Deepak Chopra; and Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Audio books on the platform include: George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Simon & Schuster has signed a content deal with a new digital media streaming app called Playster. Under the terms of the agreement, the publisher will offer unlimited access to a select backlist of eBook titles from its U.S. and international catalog through the Playster service.
Titles on the app now include: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, “The Mortal Instruments” by Cassandra Clare and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Playster library that already includes titles from HarperCollins Publishers and Harlequin.
Similar to Oyster and Netflix, the Playster app allows readers to access content through a subscription model. The app is currently in beta, but is scheduled to launch this summer. Users will have unlimited access to movies, TV, music, video games and books through the ad-free service.
