In July 2014, Amazon launched in the United States a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited: you pay a monthly fee and can download and read e-books at will. Since yesterday (11/12), this service is available in Brazil. The Kindle Unlimited costs R $ 19.90 monthly – the first month is free -. And gives access to a catalog with 700,000 e-books, 12,000 of which are in Portuguese
You will find some popular titles in our language, including all the Harry Potter books, the first Chronicles of Ice and Fire, and Diary of a Wimpy 1 and 2. The selection is limited:. the top ten best sellers in Brazil this year, none is available on Kindle Unlimited (two of them or are sold as e-books)
You will find Portuguese titles from publishers such as People, Globe, LeYa, PandaBooks, Universe of Books, Vergara & amp; Riba (V & amp; R). and Zahar
According to the PublishNews, “did not adhere to service major publishers as that make up the DLD pool (L & amp; PM, New Concept, Objective, Planet, Record, Rocco and Sextant)., the Companhia das Letras, the Intrinsic and Ediouro “Therefore, there is as many options as you would expect (as in Netflix)
In English, you will find collections like Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games, in addition to classics like 2001:!.. A Space Odyssey, stories of Stephen King, more non-fiction books
If you are interested, use the service is simple: just click the “Read for free” button in the eligible titles. You can use the e-reader Kindle or apps for iOS, Android, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone, Windows and Mac.
The Amazon explains that you can rent up to ten e-books at a time, and read each by up to six devices. Even after returning the book, “bookmarks, notes and highlights you made in e-book will be saved to your Amazon account.”
In the US, Kindle Unlimited is more expensive (US $ 10), but offers 2,000 audio books, plus three months free to the entire catalog of 150,000 audiobooks from Audible. However, the big American publishers do not offer much of its catalog in service because betting on Oyster competitor.
In Brazil, “publishers were reluctant for the proposal made by Amazon,” the PublishNews. But Alex Szapiro, Amazon manager in Brazil, is optimistic, “as happened in the US, the trend is that this catalog will grow.”
SOURCE
Gizmodo
Felipe Ventura
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