It’s like Spotify, but for books in exchange for a monthly subscription of $ 9.99, you are entitled to read whatever you want, choosing from more than 600 thousand titles. The service is called Kindle Unlimited and has just been launched by Amazon, after a few days ago was published by mistake on the company website a promotional page.
The service can be tried for free for 30 days and will also be available for mobile devices and on Apple’s iOS platform that Android, through the free app for Kindle. With this move the company of Jeff Bezos is so trying to create a Spotify for books, providing its members with access to over 600,000 titles. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Amazon would now also trying to attract large publishers, thus increasing the attractiveness of the service. At the moment the list are also popular titles such as Harry Potter , the Lord of the Rings Hunger Games , but also several exclusive to the Kindle platform. In addition to textbooks, the Kindle Unlimited offers access to over 2,000 audio books and even a chance to begin to read a text and then continue normally with the reading voice. The Seattle company is not the first to offer the ability to read books by subscription: Scribd already offers a similar service for $ 8.99 per month and can rely on a catalog of 400 000 works, while Oysrer up to 500 thousand (but for $ 9.95 per month). ‘Unlimited With Kindle you will not have to think twice before you try a new author or a new genre just starting to read, “said Russ Grandinetti, head of Amazon Kindle. It is not known if and when the service will be available in Italy. 
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