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“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 Perhaps little known mainly books or outdated, with some cleverly placed decoy in the Window?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.
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