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Amazon Officially Announces 'Kindle Unlimited' E-book and Audiobook Subscription Service
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I still prefer iBooks as my premium reading option. It's a better option and reading experience. And nobody wants to pay another monthly subscription to read books.
Hillary Clinton received an advance payment of $14 million for her (underwhelming) new book. She gets to keep all the money; the publisher only gets their money back if the book sells very well (which it hasn't been doing). Further, they spent money promoting it. This means that the book cost well over "a million dollars" to write.
People pay for their local libraries already - through taxes - so you mean that "it's another library that you pay for..."
So what if You one day decide that you no longer want to use an Apple device, switch to the next big thing... What happens to your books? Gone forever.
You pay those taxes whether you use the library or not, so the library is FREE.
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on the plus side... while yes, the library is free, just one book weighs more than a kindle and a kindle can, with this service, carry 600,000 books. plus i don't have a public library within 5 miles of my home. which is sad!! and the closest one is very tiny so it may not have some, or a lot, of the books i wanna read.
on the negative side... if you have even a tiny bit of internet prowess you can find all the e-books and audiobook you cold ever wanna read, in every format, for free.
on the plus side... while yes, the library is free, just one book weighs more than a kindle and a kindle can, with this service, carry 600,000 books. plus i don't have a public library within 5 miles of my home. which is sad!! and the closest one is very tiny so it may not have some, or a lot, of the books i wanna read.
on the negative side... if you have even a tiny bit of internet prowess you can find all the e-books and audiobook you cold ever wanna read, in every format, for free.
I think this is a pretty decent offering if their catalog of books includes authors you like. The subscription service would pay for itself if you read 2+ books per month. Just curious about what authors included. I saw someone say Lee Child books are not included, which sucks because I'm trying to blast through the Jack Reacher series. I do want to read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series, so this would definitely save me some money.
Kindle Unlimited is like Netflix, not Spotify.
Netflix has limited selections (lot of holdouts).
Spotify has 99.9% selections (very few holdouts).
Amazon listed 600,000 ebooks for Kindle Unlimited.
There are about 3,000,000 ebooks.
so that's 20%
Therefore we should discourage people to switch from Windows to Mac. You know, they will lose all the things they paid for.
Who wants to go to a library? Who has time?
Convenience for the win! And Amazon knows this.
WOW!!! i never really noticed the member since thing tip now. i've been a member since 2003. i think i'm one of the longest members on here!! i don't see any older dates on this thread.
It won't be long until Google and Apple join in the ebook subscription game.
Both Google and Apple both joined in the music subscription game with Google Play All Access Music and Beats Music.
Will be fun....
could apps be next?
Unlimited apps download for $9.99 a month?
We got music, movies/tv, now books....
Both Google and Apple both joined in the music subscription game with Google Play All Access Music and Beats Music.
Will be fun....
could apps be next?
Unlimited apps download for $9.99 a month?
We got music, movies/tv, now books....
Here in the UK many smaller libraries are closing as no one ever uses them.
They are boring and the stats prove it.
Libraries offer ebooks. You know, they are libraries yet they are in the XXI century.
I'm not in the UK. Where I live, no library has closed, and the parking lots are always full. That's proof that the library is not boring, and the stats prove it.
Dunno. At the library I work for I see children playing, reading, having fun.
I see kids programs. Next week we bring them to the Police training academy, the aquarium, the planetarium, Legoland... for free.
I see teens reading their mangas, and YA books. I see teens using our Mac Pro or our iMacs.
I see adults using our computers to watch their favorite online video, play videogames, attend our free courses or read their favorite book.
Has anyone been able to figure out how much this service overlaps with the Kindle Lending Library? That supposedly features 500,000 books, including Harry Potter, so I'm wondering if it's pretty much the same. But none of the articles I've been able to find so far has even acknowledged the Lending Library.
Lots of people have time. I pass a library 2-3 times per week and I'm typically in and out of there in 15 minutes or less...often less.