Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited: eBook 600,000 to $ 10 a month – La Stampa (Blog)

 

Amazon Launches Kindle Unlimited: 600 000 books at $ 10 per month

 

 
  18/07/2014
 
 

It’s like Spotify, but for books in exchange a monthly subscription of $ 9.99, you are entitled to read whatever you want, choosing from over 600,000 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 free for 30 days and will also be available for mobile devices both 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, thereby increasing the attractiveness of the service.

At the moment the list are also popular titles, such as Harry Potter , the Lord of the Rings and Hunger Games , but also several exclusive to the Kindle platform. In addition to textbooks, 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 company of Seattle is not the first to offer the ability to read books in subscription: Scribd already offers a similar service for $ 8.99 per month and can rely on a catalog of 400,000 works, while Oysrer gets to 500,000 (but for $ 9.95 per month).

“With Kindle Unlimited 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 also be available in Italy.

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