Mini Tablet: November 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Best eBook eReader for comparison: Kindle topped the preferences – Assodigitale

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Amazon Kindle Unlimited: catalog no means unlimited – Eeevolution (registration) (blog)

Writing in Ridble I think I have already repeated several times: I am a great lover of reading and am a fan of new technologies. This means that the arrival of the books and eReader has really opened up a world. Digital books have been for me a real revolution in the way you think about reading. You will thus understand the high expectations that have been created in me when a week ago (time in reference to the implementation of this article) arrived in Italy Amazon Kindle Unlimited , the service that allows you to read a number unlimited eBook catalog dedicated for an monthly subscription of € 9.99 . I ran immediately to make up for the service by using the feedback page on Amazon, exploiting month free trial offered by the company Bezos.

I had to do is enter your user name and password on Amazon, press on the appropriate banner and within a few minutes I was already slingshots on the site in search of titles to download and read. Unfortunately, past the first ten minutes of euphoria, I started to notice a fundamental problem in the service: the catalog. We must therefore say that it is true that there are more than 700 thousand titles to read, but some of these 617mila are in English and only a little more than 15 thousand in Italian . Of course, Amazon has clearly stated during the launch, so no cheating. The big problem, beyond the simple numbers, is the very form of the books. There are in fact few titles, and often not very well known. Are excluded from the catalog Kindle Unlimited lots of great literature and fiction. Just to quote you a bit ‘of my research go empty I’ll name a few: the choice there are no such books of foreign authors such as Stephen King, JRR Tolkien, Nick Hornby, John Grisham and Jeffery Deaver, but not books by writers such as Italian Baricco, or Amanniti De Carlo; this is just a small selection of the names that we find.

But what are the authors present? Well, we have a few books of famous writers, but not many. He then speaks mostly books publishing groups small enough or self-productions. Not that that might mean that there are no interesting books or pleasant, in fact I found a couple of unexpected surprises, but the fact remains that this is a complete catalog far too little.

The reason is quite simple For the moment, the Italian version of Kindle Unlimited have joined many of the most important publishing groups as Mondadori, Feltrinelli, Gems, and even some of those who have joined, like Newton Compton, they did so by giving only a relatively small part of their catalog. Of course, things improve a bit ‘if you read the English , the quantity of books available is extended enough and you do not struggle to find interesting titles. Nevertheless, for those who do not like or can not read in foreign languages, the possibilities offered by Unlimited and many are not, which is really a shame, because the service technically works very well . Browsing the site or the app you can quickly choose the books you want to read and add them to your list by clicking on the “Read the Kindle with free Unlimited”.

You have the ability to download up to ten books simultaneously and read on a very wide range of devices. Of course they fall between the Kindle eBook reader like the new Touch, but also on Android devices, such as smartphones or tablets, such as the Fire HD 6, iPhone, iPad and PC (Mac and Windows), with the aid clients. The synchronization of the devices is always fast and functional app for reading are well made and easy to use. I open a small parenthesis here, however, to reiterate a concept very dear to me: talking to the reader, beyond the goodness of the service, my advice is always to use an eReader to have the experience of digital readout, because much more comfortable and compliant with various smartphones and tablets.

I believe that the choice of Amazon to launch Kindle Unlimited, even without a well-stocked catalog, it may be very counterproductive. First of all to the Target to which it is addressed, it is true that € 9.99 a month is not much, but it is also true that they are not even many readers who spend that amount on a monthly basis. The service is convenient if you always buy a printed book or alternatively two books per month, which, on average, thus reaching a ten euro of expenditure. We talk about fans , which are likely to be even more discerning readers sporadic with regard to the choice of titles to read. It is true that Amazon with Unlimited offers a variety of interesting volumes of authors self-produced or not very popular, so that probably can use the new service as an important resource, but it is also true that if a side of these authors are not also writers Note the attractions that the subscription has on potential users and also decreased a lot.

There is no doubt at this point the question becomes large, also play a factor in the VAT, and for the eBook is still 20% while for printed books is 4%, and critical of some members of publishing, the main example that this kind of subscriptions tend to flatten the books that would be put on the market at all same price, without attention to quality and value. My personal opinion is that such a service, if well implemented, can be very useful for both publishers and users. I myself abbonerei very happy if I knew how to have a catalog full of titles that interest me, securities in most cases normally would not buy it anyway, but I would go to get to the library or I’d borrowed from a friend.

This means that it is not necessarily true, as I heard someone say, subscriptions will decrease revenue for publishers, indeed. As I just said, at least in my case, will likely increase, since I often do not spend ten euro per month in the books, but I’m going to borrow them in physical and digital libraries; But I would be willing to pay an appropriate figure for the convenience of having a decent catalog always at hand .

Unfortunately, at the time the catalog Unlimited Amazon Kindle is not satisfactory, at least according to my expectations. It’s a shame, because the app and the site are simple and intuitive, books and comics are read very well and the price is also competitive. The offer little rich but does not convince absolutely . My hope is to see in the not very forthcoming Unlimited evolve and become a service that can provide you the best reading experience thanks to a wide and varied choice. Meanwhile, in spite of myself, I really do not renew your subscription and you will not deny that I say this with deep regret, given the high expectations I had on the matter.

If you would like to directly test the Amazon Kindle can do Unlimited directly through the following link. The free trial period is currently 30 days.

Amazon Kindle 2014: pictures – Webnews

Amazon Kindle, version 2014, makes a lot of progress compared to the past by focusing on excellent quality relationship between performance and price.

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Kindle Voyage removed: it is easy to fix – Webnews

Floriana Giambarresi , November 17, 2014, 11:56

The team at iFixit has already managed to make the teardown of the Kindle Voyage found that take it apart piece by piece is not too difficult . The rating of repairability assigned to the new e-book reader is 7 out of 10: Some of the modular components can be easily replaced when there are other pieces – like the panel – much more difficult to change and repair.

The new digital book reader weblog Amazon offers a particularly pleasant reading experience at a price of $ 290, higher than the competing devices, but justified by the components “luxury” that characterize . According to iFixit, is complicated to remove the e-ink panel Voyage of the Kindle, because it is fragile, thin, maintained to the device with adhesive and bonded to the glass that protects it. Replace and repair it is therefore quite difficult. The same you will have problems with the battery (1320 mAh), since Amazon has used too much adhesive to secure it.

Reach out and remove the other internal components is much simpler. For example, to remove the rear panel just remove the plastic insert glossy top and unscrew 4 screws; most of the chip are blocked on the frame with its simple screws. According to iFixit, it does not take long to get to the heart of the system, so it’s pretty easy to reach.

We learn that one of the most prominent of the Kindle Voyage is related to the ambient light sensor , able to automatically adjust the brightness of the display according to the context in which we find ourselves. These below are the components discovered by the famous team, who have their place within the reader Amazon:

THGBM5G5A1JBAIR Toshiba 32 GB (4 GB) eMMC NAND Flash
Freescale Semiconductor MCIMX6L8DVN10AB Applications Processor
Samsung K4P4G324EQ-RGC2 4 Gb (512 MB) LPDDR2 SDRAM
MAX77696A Maxim Integrated Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC)
AR6803G-BL3B Atheros WLAN Controller
Freescale Semiconductor M05R5V 1N96F ACBIT
Texas Instruments DRV2667 Piezo Haptic Driver.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Kindle Voyage removed, it is easy to repair | Photo Gallery – HDblog (Blog)

iFixiit unmount Kindle Voyage and it is surprisingly easy to repair. The final grade is a beautiful 7/10 , and this means that the new sensors and new technologies introduced in its eReader by this model, they have not made a machine to throw the first hardware problem.

In fact, it is easy to reach on Kindle Voyage er emove components interior. To remove the entire rear panel, for example, just to blow the plastic insert glossy top and then unscrew 4 screws. After that, you will find that most of the cards are locked to the frame just by simple screws , no glue or adhesive material. An exception is the battery (1320 mAh 3.8V), according to the Australian drafting blocked by excess adhesive.

It is difficult, however, to remove the panel E-Ink reader, not only because fragile, thin and held together by adhesive all around, but because welded to the glass of protection, so a little ‘expensive to replace. Note, in one of the pictures, such as the display E-Ink Paper continue to show the last image played back before removing the battery, and that although it is now separated from the rest; is a good example of how this technology works, where the energy is only required during the refresh / change page / opening menu or whatever.

In the iFixit teardown to your Kindle Voyage is interesting to note the system paging touch called PagePress , consisting of a sensor (side) divided into two areas, and it is interesting to note the sensor to adjust the brightness in the upper right corner, right corner of the frame. This is another confirmation of the good features of this book reader, the “best hardware ever” of the whole class according to the reviews online but, unfortunately, very difficult to buy for us Europeans. In Italy, then, better not talk about it.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Glose challenge Kindle, but social reading is a lost game – Panorama

In recent years, many have tried to package the social networks for the final read , and Anobii Goodreads vie for center stage for several years, but if we look numbers, it is clear that the game of social reading is never really started.

Of course, thousands of users have registered to these social networks and discuss every day, leave comments, reviews and ratings, but the real breakthrough never happened. Social theorists suggest reading some time to develop a community of readers that interacts in real-time in the course of reading a book, exchanging opinions, notes, guidance and advice; the basic idea is to transform the digital readout in a kind of community event, as if the various users were all sitting around the same hearth, to read the same book and talk about swinging a glass of red wine.

After years of trying, no one has yet been able to realize such a scenario, even Amazon, which also boasts the most widely used device (Kindle), the most used social network for reading (Goodreads) as well as a huge reservoir of users. But some continue to hope.

This is the case of Glose , a new startup that has set itself the goal of making the experience of reading an e-book significantly different from reading of a paper book. Glose is a cross between a digital store ebook and a ‘ app for reading is available for iOS and web (short for Android), provides a catalog of over 300,000 titles of the major publishing houses and, above all, is designed to allow people who are reading the same book to interact with each other while reading.

Each user can comment and show parts of the ebook, and share these annotations with the whole community Glose. In this way, a user who wants to deal with others on a book he read (or plan to read) can access the different records, or choose to keep in touch with specific users who appreciates more notes.

Of course, such an approach does a lot more for the essays for fiction, but the ambition of the creators of Glose is to introduce a new way of reading, a kind of digital reincarnation of the book club.

For now, the app is still far from being fully functional. Some users complain about little versatility in the choice of fonts and font sizes, and also the most interesting feature, namely the ability to show automatically sentences with a single touch, has yet to be finalized.

But surely Glose is an interesting proposal, and it is possible that, even if it will not succeed as a stand-alone app, the companies that produce e-reader may have interest in integrate it into their devices (or to acquire it directly to avoid problems, real Amazon?).

There is the real possibility that the whole way that the goal of the developers is Glose are placed is not actually reachable. Although social reading is an interesting experiment, unlikely to have the same success of social listening or social watching .

To be clear: it was quite predictable that sooner or later users would use Twitter and its hashtags to comment on live TV shows or movies; This does not mean that the same should be done for reading, which is traditionally a ‘ mostly solitary activity , often linked to a moment of silence and isolation from the outside world.

In short, I do not know about you, but I when I read a book, the rest of the world I forget again.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

XCOM: Enemy Within arrive tomorrow for iOS, Android and Kindle – Everyeye.it

By: John Ferlazzo
News | 11/12/2014 (17:45) : 2K Games has announced that from tomorrow it will be available the version for iOS , Android and Kindle XCOM: Enemy Within .
The game has been re-engineered to be fully compatible with touchscreen mobile device, so as to provide a recreational experience accessible without the need for physical buttons. Enemy Within is the stand alone expansion of XCOM: Enemy Unknown , great real-time strategy available for this iOS and Android. The price of the US version will be € 12.99, while awaiting confirmation regarding Europe.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Unlimited Amazon Kindle: a library in your pocket – Gazzetta di Parma

Amazon has just launched, in Italy, Kindle Unlimited. This service promises to be a real revolution for fans of reading, as it allows you to always have access to a vast library, at a really low cost. This is a subscription service that costs only € 9.99 a month, gives you access to over 700,000 titles in e-book format. In fact, for now, the lyrics are in Italian only 15,000, but the number is going to grow quickly.

Of course, in order to read, you have to acquire an e-book reader Kindle or other device (tablet, smartphone or PC) who have installed the app to read Amazon. The first 30 days are also free. In the US the service is already active since last July, and has aroused great interest.

An excellent opportunity especially for “heavy readers” who can read a lot at an affordable price. A point in favor of e-books, which are gradually gaining new market share, even if it’s far the demise of the paper book, which still has many admirers and a special charm. The two media seem destined to live a long time even if, at a time of economic crisis, the ability to save will definitely impress readers.

That the economic aspect in this regard is crucial, also bears witness to the countryside # unlibroèunlibro, which combined on twitter and facebook for the major Italian publishers. It is a strong protest on the removal of barriers, which prevent the full deployment of the ebook, in particular the imposition of 22%, much higher than that reserved for paper books, which is 4%

And you, when you read, you prefer the book or ebook?

My kingdom for a Kindle. Just who is Unlimited – GQ.com

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Amazon brings Kindle Unlimited in Italy – Webnews

Philip Vendrame , November 4, 2014, 11:16

Amazon port in Italy Unlimited Edition , the service that allows users unlimited access to a vast catalog of eBooks. Launched for the first time last July for the American market, the Amazon Kindle Unlimited arrives in Italy now offers its users access to more than 700,000 Kindle books at a cost of € 9.99 per month . Unlimited Edition is available starting today and is available on Kindle devices or by using free Kindle reading apps from Amazon.

Amazon has also provided a free trial period of 30 days for those who wish to try The new reading service “unlimited” before subscribe. Access your Kindle books Unlimited selection is simple: the titles available are already bearing the logo Kindle Unlimited. Customers can choose from the best-selling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone JK Rowling, House of Cards Michael Dobbs and My London Simonetta Agnello Hornby, an important selection of comics including Richard Matheson Road Rage, The First A great book like Panda James Bevilacqua, and thousands of other titles.

The subscription includes unlimited Amazon Kindle, for those who subscribe, 700,000 books, including 15,000 in Italian. The subscription also allows you to access some unique , including new releases and best-selling Kindle as the winning of the competition BigJump The path of words Veronica Gussoni Lost Legion George Wildramp, Orphans of God Mary Acciaro, The code of the Phoenix Umberto Lubich and the series TRI Lorena Laurenti. Unlimited With Kindle you can discover the pleasure of reading comic books in digital format, with titles such as Star Wars 1 John Jackson Miller, Chronicles of the Emerging World Licia Troisi and masterpieces Mark Millar, including Kick Ass 1 and Wanted 1 .

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The subscription still offers the possibility to choose from hundreds of thousands titles in English and, in the most recent versions of Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite, use WordWise : This function, for readers of all ages, easy to read and faster understanding thanks to the automatic display of simple definitions over the short and complex words. Unlimited Edition provides the ability to read in the original language, the works of great authors such as Lesley Thomson, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Joe Lansdale, Ellery Queen and prestigious classics such as Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Three Men in a Boat.

Amazon lowered the price to 59 € the latest version of its famous … – GQ.com

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Unlimited Kindle: Amazon’s service is disappointing, for the moment … – WebTrek.it

When Amazon announced its service Unlimited Edition , I received the news with great interest and satisfaction. Finally we had a library almost unlimited and always available on our Kindle devices (and on all other devices via the official app). Great price, € 9.99 per month to over 700,000 titles, 15,000 of which are in Italian, with the ability to download up to ten e-book at the same time and sync them on different devices.

At first I did not think much of those numbers, and therefore, no time to finish reading the news and I had already signed the free 30 days that Amazon offers for those who want to try the service before subscribing. If you want to test it you or get more information click on the link below: Amazon Kindle Unlimited

I grab my tablet, discharge application Kindle, I enter my data and I sign with the intention to put me now to find my favorite books, but before I drop the eye on the main screen of the store showing among others the category “Top headlines read”. The open and curious look some titles that are all the rage: “Manual of the perfect adulteress”, “The True Story of the Magliana gang”, “Towards vegetarianism”, “12 Years a Slave” and so on.

I am puzzled: “… but is that all?” . Is it possible that the most widely read books by the Italians are these? It seems strange not to see much more famous titles, as would intuitively expect. I think probably the rankings Amazon still does not work perfectly, so abandoning this category and finally use the “search” function to find what really interests me. Start searching, and here are the key findings: “The Throne Volume 4″ € 6.99, “The Lord of the Rings” € 13.99, “My Name Is Nobody – The Oath” € 6.99, “Edge of Eternity” € 12.99.

There is something wrong. I have tried a total of ten of the largest and the world’s best-selling books as many less well-known but well-known. All are extra. Amazon, but what happens? Why do you pay a monthly subscription then if the juiciest securities are not included in your offer? I suddenly bouncing head that number, that “15,000 Italian bonds.” It was obvious that he could not be sufficient to cover the entire catalog.

There is no doubt, the service Unlimited Edition not worth the money you are required to subscribe . Probably you happen to find some way to your liking, but it is certain that a very high percentage of searches you have made will end with the disappointment of not seeing your favorite books available for free download. We hope that in the coming months we will see an expanded catalog, but until then, take out a monthly subscription is highly recommended.

Kindle Voyage: distribution in Europe postponed until December – HDblog (Blog)

Kindle Voyage continues to be damn hard to find. He should be available now in Germany and the UK, but their Amazon recall every arrival next month, to ‘ December 8 . It’s another delay for a reader presented in mid-September and again in the hands of just a few users – including international editions. Meanwhile, nothing new with regard to the arrival in Italy .

The only way to get hold of a Kindle Voyage is a high price to buy ebay : There are American sellers are willing to ship in our country, but we must add to the list already salty import taxes and international shipping for a total close to 300 Euros. Too much, even for the best ebook reader on the market.

reviews to your Kindle Voyage the rewarded from all points of view. The discordant note is the selling price, but the writer believes that 189 euro is still a tolerable cost for a device to be used every day for hours and years. The preciousness technique Voyage makes a product for strong readers, users . It is not a solution to start, maybe it is ideal for upgrading your player and forget about it.

300 ppi Panel E-Ink paper and the system paging touch with vibration led him to get top grades in tests of the newsroom the US, but it is clear that without availability did not do anything. Amazon’s peak sales in December? Probably, but the risk is to replicate the situations of the past two years where the top of the range of time ( Paperwhite ) was in apnea until the beginning of the new year. We develop different for Voyage.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Why do not I will subscribe to your Kindle Unlimited (after trying it) – Wired.it

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November 5, 2014

“700 thousand titles! 700 thousand!” The little voice in my head started to scream with joy from the moment it was made available yesterday in Italian Edition Unlimited, a subscription to the Kindle Store by Amazon that allows to download to their device, without restriction, from a basin, in fact, more than 700 thousand books, including 15 thousand in Italian .

Just read the news I literally slingshots on Amazon and, wham, in just a couple of clicks fast I enabled Kindle Unlimited. The first month, moreover, is free .

intoxicated by the endless possibilities start to wander the Kindle Store and … no, not even after 24 hours I already know that finished the 30-day I will test the termination of his service. Here is why.

First of all, 15 thousand Italian titles are certainly many, but does not cover all areas of interest . The first time i try with The Family Fang , a novel a few years ago that I had always wanted to read but somehow I had never bought it. Yuppi there! Drain immediately. Soon, however, begin disappointment . From small and independent publishers find very little. The same little voice in my head says maybe “I am that I read strange things.” I try with the launch of the autumn. The highly anticipated meatloaf Ken Follett Edge of Eternity ? Not available for Kindle Unlimited. The Fault in Our Stars? No I love shopping in Hollywood? Not even. The new Zerocalcare ? You’ll understand. When I can not find even the latest Stephen King start to wonder what is really downloadable Kindle Unlimited. Perhaps little known mainly books or outdated, with some cleverly placed decoy in the Window?

Then, Unlimited Edition is not so cheap . It is true that 9.90 Euros per month is the price of a dinner out converted to a database of titles nonetheless remarkable. However, in Italy less than half of the population reads at least one book a year and only 14% of these claims to have read a book a month. Given the current price of the books, Unlimited Edition is for those who would have bought anyway at least one book a month – maybe two if we are talking about just the ebook. Let’s talk about strong readers but because of this they are more demanding than others with respect to what they choose (and here we return to the point above dedicated to the catalog). And yet even these strong readers often do not buy all the books they read, but sometimes if you make them pay from a friend or a library.

Yes, the library . Which brings me to the third and excruciating doubt sull’aderire to the whole operation. Why Kindle Unlimited ago that effect there: the effect of those who enter the library, maybe not huge but well-stocked, and takes “what is” – maybe glad I addocchiato an interesting title but without finding exactly the last exit or the author was looking for. Which is great for us frequent visitors to libraries and can be tricky delicious. But Amazon is not a library devoted to public service. Amazon is the strongest power in the publishing world and Unlimited Edition will steer even more choices reader , because it is the human who often prefer to invest in your subscription to download unlimited books to dowload it buy more out of print – not to mention the paper. Despite having a Kindle for years, I wonder, do we really want to more power Amazon in the publishing market?

Personally, the answer is not : my subscription to your Kindle Unlimited will be canceled next month.

After reading all the legible, of course.

Books Unlimited for 9.99 EUR per month: Unlimited Amazon Kindle arrives in Italy – International Business Times Italy

For those who love reading Christmas this year has come nearly two months in advance: Amazon has launched in Italy Unlimited Edition service subscription that allows free access to a rich catalog of Kindle books (over 700,000 titles) by paying a fee of just € 9.99 per month. The initiative arrives in Italy after having a great success already this summer in the US.

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If such an offer was not already enticing enough, Amazon has decided to allow up to a month free trial users , so that they can begin to wander among the shelves of this huge virtual library with their e-books. The service will be available on Kindle devices or by using free Kindle reading applications for Amazon.

“Unlimited Edition provides our customers with a simple and convenient way to find thousands of books , including hundreds of new products, appreciate the authors in the original language and enjoy unexpected encounters with new stories and characters, “said Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president of Kindle EU.

The catalog available to Kindle users Unlimited includes 700,000 titles, 15,000 of them in Italian : between books available include some of the best-selling newer like the entire Harry Potter series, House of Cards by Michael Dobbs and My London Simonetta Agnello Hornby, and also many great classics of literature as War and Peace , The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice , The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Little Women .

However, it is fair to specify that not all e-books available on Amazon Sarano accessible thanks to a new service , but only those labeled with the logo Kindle Unlimited. Just to name a few, books Pasolini are not included, and that the work of cartoonist Roman Zerocalcare can be read only Twelve , at least for now.

The initiative to Amazon could be decisive for encourage the take-off final in Italy e-book . Among the many delays in the use of new technologies that characterize our country to the e-book is one of the most significant, with a market share in 2015 is expected to reach only 10% of all books sold. No one doubts the pleasure of hearing the paper under your fingers, but the ability to read how much you want for less than € 10 per month could convince even the most skeptical.

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Unlimited Edition Arrives in Italy – The Post

Amazon, the company known e-commerce and other digital services, has recently introduced in Italy Kindle Unlimited service which allows you to download free ebooks and audiobooks from a limited catalog, only paying a monthly subscription. The service was opened last July in the US alone and had not been announced when it would be available in the Italian market. Unlimited Kindle in Italy allows you to read more than 15 thousand books in Italian and 700 thousand in other languages: subscription costs € 9.99 per month (there is a free trial for 30 days). In the case of the US, Unlimited Edition allows free access to a catalog of more than 600 000 books to the monthly price of $ 9.99 per month (about € 7).

You can not download any books available in the catalog and set them aside: Unlimited Edition with a subscription, you can download a maximum of 10 at a time. Once downloaded, the book can be read with any portable device Amazon or other digital device brands, using a specific application available for Android tablets and smartphones, iPhone, iPad, and also on PC and Mac. Among the books available in the Unlimited catalog Kindle, Amazon noted in particular the books of legends commercially successful as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games. Among the Italians, there are a lot of books sold as “The little things of happiness” Ilaria Palmosi. There are comic books very popular, and well known to readers of the Post , such as “Twelve” by Zerocalcare and “The First Big Book of A Panda like ” by Giacomo Bevilacqua.

Currently this service is available from Amazon, as well as in the United States, including the UK, Spain and Germany, where it is offered at a price in line with the average Italian. All books available through this service are marked with the logo on the Amazon site Unlimited Edition: the page of each e-book, for those who have subscribed, you will see a button that allows you to download immediately and read the book. Several users have wondered if, once downloaded, the books are technically “bought” that is in the possession of the purchaser forever: no, the books – no more than 10 at a time – are available on your device until you paid the fee monthly subscription, and disappear if it is canceled automatically renewed.

The video released by Amazon in July in the United States: