Amazonis testingan ebook rental service called “ Kindle Unlimited , ” as GigaOmpointed outtoday . The e - DoC company put up test pages for the service , which will offer “ unlimited memory access to 600,000 titles . ” user would bear $ 10 a month for memory access to the online lending library . The interrogative sentence is : Will they ?
The current Kindle Owner ’s Lending Library has a one - Good Book - per - calendar month cap , so this could be an option for Prime drug user who want more access . The Kindle Unlimited test pages also volunteer around 8,000 audiobooks , something the current lending library does n’t have . And the promo banners for Kindle Unlimited say ratifier could access their Good Book from “ any ” equipment . This likely think of any gadget that supports the Kindle app , like iOS , Android , and Windows headphone .
Looking at the cached test page for the Kindle Unlimited , the first deed that pop up are the same as the titles foreground by the Kindle Owner ’s Lending Library . Here ’s the books that pop out up on the first page of the Kindle Owner ’s Lending Library :
And here are the books list on the hoard test page for Kindle Unlimited :
Not exactly identical ( Thomas Piketty ’s Capital only appears in the test roster ) , but too stuffy to be completely distinct .
Gizmodo has contacted Amazon for more information and will update when we hear back . This could all just be an experiment … but if it is , it ’s a very thoroughgoing one .
volume loaning services like Oyster should n’t freak out just yet . Amazon does n’t have any books from the so - shout “ prominent five ” publishers : Penguin Random House , Simon & Schuster , HarperCollins , Macmillan , and Hatchette . Some of these big houses have agreements with Oyster , as well as Scribd , and are likely not cooperating with Amazon ’s new help . It might be a long time before Hatchette ’s championship appear in the Kindle Unlimited program , regard the ongoingdown and cheating battlebetween Hatchette and Amazon .
Here are some screenshots from the hive up page :
[ GigaOM ]
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