- Subscribers can choose from 650,000 titles
- Service includes ebooks and audio books
- Readers can try the service using a free 30-day trial
Amazon has created a Netflix-style service for books, allowing customers to download unlimited ebooks and audiobooks to their Kindle for £7.99 a month.
Starting from today, the new Kindle Unlimited service will allow subscribers to choose from more than 650,000 titles. As well as promoting bestsellers, Amazon hopes it will encourage people to discover new authors, taking a risk on books they might not have bought otherwise.
They can be accessed from Kindle devices or via Amazon's free Kindle reading apps. Readers can try out the service using a free 30-day trial, and will not be charged if they choose to unsubscribe before the end of the promotion.
bestsellers: Kindle Unlimited titles include the Harry Potter series and Life of Pi
Once signed up, users simply look for the Kindle Unlimited logo on the eligible downloads – Amazon has thousands of other publications but has selected 650,000 of its ‘top titles’ – and click ‘Read for £0.00′ to choose from bestsellers such as the Harry Potter series, The Hundred Year Old Man, the Hunger Games trilogy, 2013 Man Booker prize winner The Luminaries, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Maze Runner.
Bookworms will also have access to 2,000 professionally narrated audiobooks from Audible, including Life of Pi, A Day at the Office and classics such as Great Expectations.
Kindle Unlimited includes Whispersync for Voice, allowing customers to switch back and forth between reading and listening.
The service is available via Kindle devices, as well as free Kindle reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, Windows Phone, PC, Mac and Windows 8.
Subscribers can also take advantage of publications that are exclusive to Kindle, including new releases such as Because She Loves Me by Mark Edwards, The Thief Taker by C.S. Quinn, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Hangman's Daughter series by Oliver Pötzsch, War Brides by Helen Bryan, Watching Over You by Mel Sherratt, Cry Baby by David Jackson, and James Duigan's Clean and Lean books.
Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president of Kindle EU, says: ‘With unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of titles, Kindle Unlimited offers by far the simplest and most cost-effective way to explore and discover eBooks and audiobooks together, and you can even switch from reading to listening without losing your place.
‘Our US customers have shown us how much they love the opportunity to discover new authors and genres, and now we're delighted to offer the same freedom to our customers in the UK.’
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