By Cameron Koch, Tech Times | July 18, 2:52 PM
As was reported just days ago, a new all-you-can-read service from
Amazon called Kindle Unlimited launched today, granting Kindle app users
unlimited access to a dizzying amount of books.
If you aren't sure how many books you can read in a month, you can
always try Kindle Unlimited for free for 30 days time, but be wary of
Amazon automatically charging your credit card if you don't cancel the
service before the end of the trial. For those who don't need quite so
many books, Amazon does allow users to check out one free e-book a month
through its Amazon Prime service, a feature that works exclusively on
Kindle devices called Kindle Owners Lending Library.
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As was reported just days ago, a new all-you-can-read service from
Amazon called Kindle Unlimited launched today, granting Kindle app users
unlimited access to a dizzying amount of books.
The service works in many ways like Netflix, only for
books. For $10 a month users can have access to more than 600,000 books
on any device that uses the Kindle App, including Android devices,
Windows phone and iPhones.
Amazon is proudly highlighting popular
books like the "Harry Potter" series, "Hunger Games" trilogy, "Diary of
a Wimpy Kid" and the "Lord of the Rings." The company is pointing out
that stories from Stephen King, Andy Borowitz and "exclusives" from
Amazon's publishing arm are also all available through Kindle Unlimited,
as well as more than 2,000 audiobooks, of which many will use
Whispersync for Voice, allowing users to switch between listening and
reading books. The Kindle Unlimited subscription also comes with a free
three-month Audible audiobook services with access to more than 150,000
titles.
Even with more than 600,000 books to choose from, the truth is that Amazon and Kindle Unlimited currently lacks the full support of
major publishing companies, and wi
th it thousands of popular book
titles that don't come with the $10 subscription fee. Publishers like
Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan and
Hachette are all no doubt wary of all-out supporting Amazon's new
service out fear that unlimited subscription based services will
undercut full-price book sales.
Amazon isn't the first to adopt a Netflix style approach to
digital books. Through the new service, Amazon enters direct
competition with other e-book subscription services like Scribd and
Oyster, two slightly cheaper services with a smaller selection of titles
but including books from popular publishers like HarperCollins. Amazon
is by far, however, the largest company to enter the sphere, and has at
its advantage a large built-in user base of Kindle owners and Kindle app
users.
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