How Kindle Unlimited compares with Scribd, Oyster – The Denver Post

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This screen shot taken from an iPhone shows five books, top row, available through Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription service. The service will allow unlimited access to thou sands of electronic books and audio books for $ 9.99 a month in the online giant’s latest effort to attract more users. (AP Photo)

Amazon is the latest – and largest – company to offer unlimited e-books for a monthly fee. Here’s how Kindle Unlimited, All which Amazon Announced Friday, compares with rivals Scribd and Oyster

PRICE:. Kindle costs $ 9.99 a month, while Oyster costs $ 9.95 and $ 8.99 Scribd. All three offer the first month free

SELECTION:. Kindle has the largest number of titles, with more than 600,000, Compared with Oyster’s 500 000 and 400 000 and Scribd. However, only Oyster and Scribd have books from two of the largest publishers, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster

LIMITS:. You can read as many books as you want, but you can only have a certain number of titles downloaded at a time. For Kindle, it’s 10 per account. You have to “return” a book to get the 11th. Oyster Allows 10 per device and Scribd Allows 20 per device. With all three, you can read a book on up to six different devices

DEVICES:. All three work on iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Scribd and Kindle usefull work on personal computers and Windows devices. Kindle only supports webOS and BlackBerry and dedicated Kindle e-readers zoals the White Paper

EXTRAS:. Kindle is alone in offering free audio books as part of the subscription, with a selection of 2,000 from Amazon’s Audible business. Subscribers usefull get a three-month trial to Audible, which offers one book a month from a larger library.

Testing Amazon “Kindle Unlimited ‘E-book Subscription Service – Mac Rumors

Amazon appears to be testing a new e-book and audiobook subscription service it’s calling “Kindle Unlimited,” which brings unlimited access to 600,000 e-books and thou sands of audio books for a fee of $ 9.99 per month.

According to information discovered by users on the KBoards Kindle forum (via Gigaom) Unlimited service will be the Kindle available on all devices,-including the iPhone and the iPad likely through Amazon’s Kindle app. Amazon has pulled the Pages that were found this morning, but information on the service can still be seen through Google Cache and a single test page .

The now defunct Unlimited Kindle section on Amazon.com lists several at popular e-book titles,-including Water for Elephants , Life of Pi and the entire series of Harry Potter and Hunger Games books. Appear The titles to mirror many of Those available through Amazon’s Existing Kindle Owners’ Lending Library , a Service That Allows Kindle-owning Amazon Prime subscribers to rent free e-books.

There are several at existing e-book subscription services like Those from Oyster and Scribd, but Amazon has a larger catalog of books to offer, advertising more than 600,000 titles Compared to Oyster’s 500 000 and Scribd’s 400.000, plus more than 7,000 audiobooks. Thus far, Kindle Unlimited appears to include books from publishers like Open Road Media, Workman, Algonquin, Bloomsbury, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

It is unknown when Amazon might officially launch its Kindle Unlimited subscription service and osmanthus far, it has not made a statement Regarding the test pages.

Amazon Launches Kindle $ 9.99/month Unlimited eBooks Service – DailyTech

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Live Now: Amazon Spotify for e-books, Kindle Unlimited – Bright

leesdienst ‘Kindle Unlimited’ costs $ 10 per month for unlimited reading ebooks. Yep, same price as Spotify

It leaked earlier this week via a screenshot that was taken offline hastily:. Amazons new subscription service on e-books. And Friday was the leesdienst, Kindle Unlimited , officially launched.

Tenner per month

Kindle Unlimited costs $ 9.99 per month ( first month free). You get unlimited access to more than 600 thousand books and thousands of audiobooks. service is compatible with the Kindle tablets and e-readers (which are available in the Netherlands) or the free Kindle apps on smartphones and tablets.

Amazon is the service to compete with Scribd and Oyster , similar services about charging the same prices.

Large publishers are still missing

It seems that several major U.S. publishers are not yet on board. Thus, there are no books of American publishers like Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, while publishers participate with the services of oyster and Scribd. The offer will undoubtedly be the future be further supplemented.

Update: Many books from major publishers are missing indeed, have to read popular books like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings

Kindle Unlimited state. currently only open to U.S. customers from Amazon. The company wants to introduce the service in other countries later.

Amazon said to be testing Kindle Unlimited service – CBS News

Amazon, now an Internet retail and media giant, has never forgotten its roots as an online bookseller – eventhough many Of Those books are now digital. Now It May Be considering a new service for its most voracious readers.

According to a new report by GigaOM , the e-commerce retailer May Be a testing program called Kindle Unlimited, All which would offer unlimited access to Prime books and audio books for $ 9.99 a month. Test pages for Kindle Unlimited were found by users enrolled in Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program, before being taken down (a cached version still exists).

Users on the Kindle Boards Noted That the 600,000 titles available were either published through Amazon or already available through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Which Allows Amazon Prime members to borrow bestsellers for 30 days. None of the five major publishing companies,-including Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, Appeared to be participant participating, accordion thing to GigaOM. (Simon & Schuster is owned by CBS Corp., The parent company of CBS News.)

Kindle Unlimited, if Launched, would directly compete with Oyster, a similar service Ebook That Allows unlimited access to over 500,000 books for $ 9.95 a month, and Scribd, All which has 400 000 titles, and original works-including bestsellers.

The launch of Kindle Unlimited usefull would mark a change in the company’s strategy. It would be a standalone service thats not tethered to Amazon Prime’s $ 99 annual subscription, GigaOM notes. The only similar service service thats not linked to Amazon Prime Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, which offers a selection of hand-picked titles or games, videos and books for children and parents. It is usefull only available for users with Kindle Fire tablets.

Amazon did not reply to CBS News’ requests for comment at the time of publishing.

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Amazon working on ‘Kindle Unlimited’ an ebook subscription service – DutchCowboys

Amazon can look back on a very successful 2013 . The giant closed the year with a profit of $ 274 million. In recent times, Amazon is investing in different products. Thus, the company announced earlier this year Dash with a barcode scanner with built-in microphone and Wi-Fi lets you compose. easy shopping list Amazon is now a service called Kindle Unlimited testing, an ebook subscription service that costs about $ 10 per month.

Kindle Unlimited offers more Over 600,000 titles and thousands of audio books on any device for $ 9.99 per month. Meanwhile, rumors of an ebook subscription service going for several months. Amazon Kindle With Unlimited goes into battle with competitors Scribd and Oyster.

There is not a page which operates more than 600,000 titles are displayed. Here are many titles that were present earlier in the Kindle Owners Lending Library . This can borrow a free ebook per month. Prime Members with a Kindle

When will be launched Kindle Unlimited is not yet known.

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