Bjooks Patch and Tweak Ebook Site Makes Their Gorgeous Hardcover Books Affordable, Digital
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Love Bjooks books but can’t afford the high prices? Now you can read them all online as part of a subscription at the new Patch and Tweak.com.
Bjooks Patch and Tweak Ebook Site
If you’re a music gear fan (and there’s a good bet that you are considering that you’re reading a site called Gearnews.com), you’re likely familiar with Bjooks. The independent publisher has released a number of beautiful hardcover coffee table books about all manner of music production, including modular synthesis, guitar pedals, and – most recently – the lasting legacy of the Moog Minimoog. They’re real labors of love, but they’re also necessarily pricey. If this has been a barrier to you enjoying them, that’s all about to change.
Bjooks publisher Kim Bjørn this week announced Patch and Tweak.com, a new online digital repository for the book company. It puts all of the company’s books into e-book format and gives you access to them for a monthly subscription fee.
Bjooks Patch and Tweak: The Books
Currently, there are seven Bjooks titles available to read on the site. These are: Push Turn Move, Pedal Crush, Patch & Tweak, Patch & Tweak with Moog, Patch & Tweak with Korg, Synth Gems 1 and Inspire the Music. Additionally, anyone can read Push Turn Move now for free without registering.
You’ll notice that The Minimoog Book, the company’s latest, is not part of this list. Hopefully, this will join the e-book roster soon. Note that you have to read the books on the site and you cannot download them due to piracy concerns.
Bjooks Patch and Tweak: The Articles
Along with the core books, Patch and Tweak.com will also offer additional weekly content, in the form of articles, interviews, podcast episodes, bonus book content, short documentaries, as well as patch-focused items like tips, tutorials and video walkthroughs.
Additional content is coming soon.
Bjooks Patch and Tweak: Pricing
While this may be a surprising move for a publisher known for its large-format hardcover books, having a digital option does make them more accessible. It will also allow Bjooks to update information without having to do represses, which can be very expensive.
Bjooks Patch and Tweak is a subscription-based site with two price tiers, Core and Pro. Core is €7.99/month and grants you access to the seven e-book titles. For €9.99/month, you get the e-books plus the additional material. Each tier has its own free trial period. See the site for more information.
The hardcover books remain available from Thomann*.
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3 responses to “Bjooks Patch and Tweak Ebook Site Makes Their Gorgeous Hardcover Books Affordable, Digital”
Who the hell wants to subscribe to a book? This subscription based economy is getting out of hand. Makes me not want to read these books
Same here. If you use something daily, it’s okay, but this is just ridiculous.
I have the Korg and Moog books in hard cover. Beware the Moog book has explicit language. Got it second, and that is the sole reason I won’t get any more of them.
Never would even consider getting them via subscription, that is ridiculous!