Unlimited E-book for $ 10 a month here is the next program of Amazon – International Business Times Italy

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Six hundred thousand digital books. Amazon wants to throw even more headlong into the world of e-books, a market which, thanks to its line of digital readers Kindle has seen a remarkable growth in recent years, although it is not the only hardware manufacturer: just think of the line in Italy Kobo designed by Mondadori. According to the latest rumors, but especially the pictures published on Amazon.com and still visible via Google Cache, the Seattle-based retailer plans to launch a new initiative, called the Kindle Unlimited .

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Through this program users who will be members will benefit from a catalog of more than 600,000 digital books and audiobooks that are part of various publishing houses, including that of Amazon itself, paying a subscription of 10 dollars per month. The offer includes, for example, the fantasy series The Hunger Games, The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter .

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The selection of Amazon make the portal an even more greedy for all the lovers of entertainment and reading. Amazon Prime already offers many services in addition to the Italian version, of which only gioviamo shipping free or reduced price, such as streaming of television series produced in collaboration or funded by Amazon.

A package as Kindle Unlimited also given the popularity of the Amazon Kindle line and brand, create further loyalty to an ecosystem which is already very strong and intends to strengthen the marketing of Fire Phone, Smartphone with 3D interface that CEO Jeff Bezos presented a few weeks ago.

As explained in the video above, the service will be used “on any device” from the e-reader to the basic Kindle tablet Kindle Fire. In the movie, you can also see the Fire Phone or an iPhone used to read the books so acquired.

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Amazon would have two significant competitors in the space of subscriptions for ebooks: Oyster and Scribd . Oyster service, launched in 2013 and is available on iOS and on Android (even the Kindle version), includes unlimited access to more than 500,000 digital books in front of a payment of $ 9.95 per month. Scribd, however, is available on the same platforms but its supply is slightly more limited, we are around 400,000 proposals for a monthly charge of $ 8.99.

The main weapon of these two companies with respect to Amazon, or at least compared to what we know at the time of Kindle Unlimited and its catalog, is the deal with big names publishing as HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster that ensure them the best bestsellers; Unlimited Kindle, however, seems not to have yet secured any agreement of this kind with major publishers.

In any case, Amazon wants to create a real “circle of trust” around which to pamper her client: streaming of TV series, smartphones and tablets with which to surf the web, digital books and audiobooks. A daily experience that involves various areas of entertainment, offering diverse and complete an offer.