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.