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, 500 000 Compared with Oyster’s and Scribd’s 400,000. However, only Oyster and Scribd have books from two of the largest publishers, HarperCollins and Simon & amp; Schuster
LIMITS:. You can read as many books as you go for, 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. Only Kindle supports webOS and BlackBerry and dedicated Kindle e-readers zoals the Paperwhite
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, All which offers one book a month from a larger library.
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