Amazon Testing 'Kindle Unlimited' E-book Subscription ServiceAmazon 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 thousands of audiobooks for a fee of $9.99 per month.
According to information discovered by users on the
KBoards Kindle forum (via
Gigaom) the Kindle Unlimited service will be available on all devices, including the iPhone and the iPad likely via 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 Kindle Unlimited section on Amazon.com lists several popular e-book titles, including
Water for Elephants,
Life of Pi and the entire series of Harry Potter and Hunger Games books. The titles appear 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 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.
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It is unknown when Amazon might officially launch its Kindle Unlimited subscription service and thus far, it has not made a statement regarding the test pages.
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