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: