Amazon launches “Netflix for books” for $ 9.99 per month in the U.S. – veja.com

E-books

Claudia Tozetto

Amazon presented on Friday a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, which allows access a collection of more than 600,000 e-books for a monthly fee of $ 9.99 per month. The service – sort of Netflix (movies) and Spotify (music) books – is available only in the United States through the Kindle e-reader apps, and also read the

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According to Amazon, you can get the books in the shop itself. The titles included in the Kindle Unlimited service will display a special seal. For reading, the user must click on the “Read for Free” button. For audiobooks, titles that you can hear, Amazon will offer a free three-month period to subscribers Kindle Unlimited.

Among the titles available in the service is the trilogy of Lord of the Rings , the entire series of Harry Potter , as well as titles from other genres such as The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . Amazon also offer infant, academic journals and reference books, as well as tour guides through the Kindle Unlimited.

All content can be accessed on e-readers Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite, apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Windows computers and MacOS 8 According to Amazon, all the popular features of Kindle books, including excerpts from popular books marked more by readers and automatic record of where the user left off reading, will also be available in the subscription model

Subscription books -. In the United States, the new service will compete with Amazon’s Oyster, which offers a collection of 500,000 books for 9 95 dollars a month. The e-books can be read on apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire in the tablet and also via the web. Another rival is the Scribd , who, since October of last year, offers access to 100,000 titles of e-books for a monthly fee of $ 8.99. The service, however, only gives access to books published until 2012, leaving the releases out of the reach of the reader.

Kindle Unlimited is not expected to launch in other countries, such as Brazil. Around here, there are at least three similar services. In Cloud Books, the consumer pays a monthly fee of 19.90 reais, but the company does not indicate the site the amount of books available. There are also other options such as My Library, offering 4,000 titles of scholarly books, but can only be accessed by students of partner schools and universities

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