Subscription Services in the Context of Market Trends, presented by Jonathan Stolper, SVP Nielsen Book Americas, at Making Information Pay 2014, a track of IDPF's Digital Book 2014 at Book Expo America, on May 29, 2014

Subscription Services in the
Context of Market Trends
Q1 2014
Jonathan Stolper
May 2014

Copyright©2012TheNielsenCompany.Confidentialandproprietary.
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Latest Nielsen Research:
• Streaming Music Subscription Services
• Streaming TV and Movies Subscription Services
• Book Subscription Services
.
Book Subscription Services Agenda

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STREAMING MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
How have subscription services faired in other entertainment sectors?

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Methodology/Data Sources
Data on Music Subscriptions:
Derived from NetView panel to analyze streaming behavior
• A representative panel of 220,000 US Internet users
• tracks consumer usage across all web sites and apps at work at home
and work
• Delivers high-quality audience data and analytics that are based on
observed behaviours at an individual user level (age 2+)

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Total Music Streams
Nielsen Entertainment– BDS Streaming Data Q1-’12 – Q3-’13
Longitudinal, non-video provider data: Cricket, MediaNet, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker,
Spotify
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
Q1-2012 Q2-2012 Q3-2012 Q4-2012 Q1-2013 Q2-2013 Q3-2013
Total Streams: Overall Growth
MM Streams

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Streaming Accounts for a Fifth of US Music Revenues
% of music revenues coming from streaming services

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10,000
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Oct-13
Access To Sites and Services With Pirated Content Is
Decreasing…
Based on all who have accessed an illegal site or service
Source: Nielsen US NetView Panel Home and Work – Sept ‘11 – Oct ‘13
US internet users access sites
and services with illegitimate
content (10%)
22m
Users (,000’s) Reach
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
20%
Sep-11
Oct-11
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Visitation to Pirate Sites and Services - Audience Size

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Who Are Music Streamers?
Key Findings
• Younger adults (18-34) are more likely to be streamers and also
stream the most
• Heavy streamers lean slightly male, moderate streamers slightly
female
• Music streaming has not spread to the less tech-savvy
• Streamers are less likely to pirate content
• African Americans and Hispanics are more likely than the average
internet user to stream music

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STREAMING TV & MOVIE SUBSCRIPTION
SERVICES
How have subscription services faired in other entertainment sectors?

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Methodology/Data Sources
Data on Movie/TV Subscriptions:
• Nielsen Total Home Entertainment Panel; Full Year 2013
• 3,000 households active per quarter
• Record all Movie and TV transactions across all retailers, devices, and
platforms
• A longitudinal view, tracking panelists behavior over time

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Streaming TV & Movies Subscription Services Are On the Rise
Especially in last 9-Months
19.9% 19.3%
18.2%
19.2%
21.2%
18.7%
22.7%
25.4%
0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2013 Q1 2014
HH Penetration

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Streaming Is Primarily Used for Television
Types of Content: %ofStreams %ofSubscription
Streams
Television 81.0% 80.3%
Movies 19.0% 19.7%
Action/Adventure 4.8% 5.4%
Comedy 2.4% 2.6%
Drama 3.5% 4.2%
Family 3.0% 3.0%
SciFi 1.0% 1.0%
Horror 1.9% 1.3%
Source: Nielsen Total Home Entertainment Panel; Full Year 2013

13Nielsen Total Market Panel: 2012:Q2-2013:Q2. Transactional Movie Spend By SVOD vs. Non-SVOD Households
$0
$5
$10
$15
$20
$25
$30
$35
$40
SVOD HHs NON SVOD HHs
Avg Quarterly SpendQuarterlyHHSpend
Streamers Spend Less on Transactional Content

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Nielsen Total Market Panel: 2012:Q2-2013:Q2. Transactional Movie Spend for sVOD Adopting HHs.
Included: Longitudinal sVOD adopters with at least 2 months in the panel prior both pre and post adoption.
$16.44
$8.46
$0
$2
$4
$6
$8
$10
$12
$14
$16
$18
Before After
AVG/HH Spend sVOD Adopters
n=749
MonthlyHHSpend
Netflix
Hulu+
Amazon Prime
Redbox Instant
But Make Up For It In Subscription Costs

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How Might All Of This Impact
Book Subscriptions….
• Don’t expect rapid take-off….growth is incremental
• Early adopters are more likely to be…
• Young
• Male
• Tech-savvy
• A reduction in illegal behaviors
• First to adopt tend to be heavier buyers…

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BOOK SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
So how are book subscription services playing out in the book industry?

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Books & Consumers Methodology
US & UK consumer market tracker studies providing demographic and psychographic information on
today’s book buyer:
 6,000 book buyers per month in US drawn from a national representative sample
• 75 questions about book and ebook purchasing
• ~72,000 book consumers annually
• ~200,000 book purchases annually
Deliverables:
 Annual Reviews
 Industry Standard Quarterly Reports
 Genre Landscapes – quarterly
 GenreProfiles – annual
 Adhoc analysis
 Return to sample
 Syndicated Deep-Dives e.g. Children’s, Ebook Consumers, Travel
Developments:
 B&C lite and dashboard solution
 Retailers, AGFA, device manufacturers
 Segmentation and clustering studies
 Forecasting

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Books & Consumers Coverage
Book buyers Books bought
What?
Where?
When?
Demographics
Media usage
Leisure habits
Why?
Who for?
Book spend
Sex, age, region, socio-economic, family
Newspapers, magazines, devices, social media
Online, offline, cultural
Publisher, format, genre,
author, price, discounting
Channel, retailer
Month, quarter, YTD
Discovery, influences, use
Sex & age, relationship,
occasion
Reading attitudes

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Book Buyer Activities in Q1 2014
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
None of the above
Took out a subscription to read ebooks where you pay a monthly fee
to download a number of books (e,.g, via Safari Online, Oyster, etc.)
Read a book in serialized form
Went to an e-bookstore and e-reading platform that lets you pay only
for what you read
Subscribed to AmazonPrime and downloaded a Kindle book to
borrow for free each month from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library
Subscribed to AmazonPrime and downloaded streaming content of
movies and/or TV shows with Prime Instant Video
Downloaded a book related 'app' to a device such as a smartphone,
tablet, or ereader either free or paid for separately
Went on vacation to a destination significantly far from your home
(personal, not business)
Visited a public library either in-person or online
Purchased one or more books (any type, such as, hard cover,
paperback, audio, e-book, etc.)
Cooked using recipies
4%
9%
17%
17%
16%
23%
33%
40%
56%
68%
68%
Nielsen Books & Consumers Monthly Survey
Respondent Level Summary (Book Buyers ~6,000 per month)

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Most Popular Subscription Services (of the 9%)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Other, please specify
24Symbols
Entitle (formerly eReatah)
SkillSoft (Harper Collins)
Scribd
Direct from another publisher
Harlequin
Oyster
Safari Online
AmazonPrime
4%
17%
19%
22%
23%
23%
23%
27%
34%
79%
Q1 2014

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Book Buyer Activities in Q1 2014
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
None of the above
Read a book in serialized form
for what you read
Went on vacation to a destination significantly far from your home
(personal, not business)
Cooked using recipies
4%
5%
17%
17%
16%
23%
33%
40%
56%
68%
68%

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How Do Subscribers Compare (Gender)?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Purchased one or more books (any format.)
for what you read
46.4%
48.7%
52.6%
53.7%
55.7%
56.4%
60.8%
53.6%
51.3%
47.4%
46.3%
44.3%
43.6%
39.2%
Male Female

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How Do Subscription Services Compare?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Scribd
Safari
Online
Oyster
AmazonP
rime
61.1%
62.1%
60.4%
60.6%
38.9%
37.9%
39.6%
39.4%
Male Female

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How Do Subscribers Compare (Age)?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Downloaded a book related 'app' to a device such as a
smartphone, tablet, or ereader either free or paid for separately
Subscribed to AmazonPrime and downloaded streaming content
of movies and/or TV shows with Prime Instant Video
Went to an e-bookstore and e-reading platform that lets you
pay only for what you read
borrow for free each month from the Kindle Owners' Lending
Library
Took out a subscription to read ebooks where you pay a
monthly fee to download a number of books (e,.g, via Safari
Online, Oyster, etc.)
27.3%
28.1%
36.4%
36.5%
36.8%
37.4%
40.5%
27.5%
28.4%
32.5%
34.9%
35.0%
36.8%
40.0%
13-17 Yrs 18-29 Yrs 30-44 Yrs 45-54 Yrs 55-64 Yrs 65+ Yrs

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How do Subscription Services Compare?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Scribd
Safari Online
Oyster
AmazonPrime
7.6%
11.2%
9.4%
8.3%
39.7%
41.8%
42.5%
40.8%
49.6%
42.2%
46.2%
42.9%
3.1%
3.0%
1.9%
4.1%
0.0%
1.3%
0.0%
2.5%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
1.4%
13-17 Yrs 18-29 Yrs 30-44 Yrs 45-54 Yrs 55-64 Yrs 65+ Yrs

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How do Subscribers Compare (Income)?
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Visited a
public library
either in-
person or
online
Purchased one
or more books
(any type,
such as, hard
cover,
paperback,
audio, e-book,
etc.)
Downloaded a
book related
'app' to a
device such as
a smartphone,
tablet, or
ereader either
free or paid
for separately
Took out a
subscription
to read
ebooks where
you pay a
monthly fee to
download a
number of
books (e,.g,
via Safari
Online,
Oyster, etc.)
Subscribed to
AmazonPrime
and
downloaded
streaming
content of
movies and/or
TV shows with
Prime Instant
Video
Subscribed to
AmazonPrime
and
downloaded a
Kindle book to
borrow for
free each
month from
the Kindle
Owners'
Lending
Library
Went to an e-
bookstore and
e-reading
platform that
lets you pay
only for what
you read
13.4% 14.0% 15.1%
20.4%
17.0% 17.7% 17.9%
9.5% 10.0% 10.8%
13.4% 12.6% 12.6% 11.6%
4.4% 5.0% 5.9% 7.4% 6.3% 7.1% 6.0%
$150,000 and over
$100,000-$149,999
$75,000-$99,999
$50,000-$74,999
$35,000-$49,999
$25,000-$34,999
$15,000-$24,999
Under $15,000

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How do Subscription Services Compare?
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
AmazonPrime Oyster Safari Online Scribd
5.5% 4.7% 6.5% 7.6%
4.8% 3.8% 2.6%
5.3%
9.9%
7.5% 8.6% 3.8%
13.1%
11.3%
14.7%
10.7%
24.0%
25.5%
26.3%
21.4%
21.2%
17.9%
17.7%
24.4%
14.7%
18.9%
15.1%
17.6%
6.7%
10.4% 8.6% 9.1% $150,000 and over
$100,000-$149,000
$75,000-$99,999
$50,000-$74,999
$35,000-$49,999
$25,000-$34,999
$15,000-$24,999
Under $15,000

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Subscribers Continue to Shop for Books in Other Outlets
$60.80
$105.80
$10.00
$-
$20.00
$40.00
$60.00
$80.00
$100.00
$120.00
$140.00
Non-Subscribers Subscribers
Monthly Fee
Book Transactions
4.9 books
7.7 books

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Subscribers Are More Likely to Plan Book Acquisition
51%
36%
22%
23%
12%
17%
15%
25%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Yes No
Not Planned, Impulse purchase
Planned a book at that specific
time, but not specific bk
Planned this specific book, but
not at that specific time
Planned this specific book at
that specific time

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Book Subscribers Are More Likely to Have Also
Pirated Books in the Last 6-months
20%
17%
15%
14%
7%
5%
2%
3%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Obtain from a friend via IM e-
mail or flash drive
Download from a public/open
torrent site like The Pirate Bay
or another torrent site or
service.
Download from a public/open
cyberlocker such as RapidShare
or Megaupload
Obtain from a friend via a closed
internal network like Dropbox or
cloud systems
Yes
No

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In Summary
• Book subscription people are higher book buyers than the norm.
• Mostly Men
• Younger
• Wealthier
• Their book purchases are less “impulsive” than the norm
• They continue to maintain other book purchase habits
• Are more likely to have pirated books in the past – need further study to see
if subscription service have decreased their pirated activities

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Ideas For Further Study…
• Adoption, Loyalty, Substitution
• Content, Selection
• Attracting a Wider Audience

Subscription Services in the Context of Market Trends, presented by Jonathan Stolper, SVP Nielsen Book Americas, at Making Information Pay 2014, a track of IDPF's Digital Book 2014 at Book Expo America, on May 29, 2014

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