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Kindle Unlimited launches in the UK
Mandark
24-09-2014
Quote:
“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.”

Good for prolific book readers may be but I believe that it doesn't include all publishers who sell on Amazon.

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Ignite
24-09-2014
I saw this and thought how great this would be until I started looking in more detail. None of the book series I normally read were included (Clive Cussler, Star Trek etc) so it's not so great as they make out.
LightningIguana
24-09-2014
Plumped for the free trial, mostly for my book-loving father, but he's already started moaning that no one he likes is actually on it. But hey, a free month.
Anika Hanson
24-09-2014
Originally Posted by Ignite:
“I saw this and thought how great this would be until I started looking in more detail. None of the book series I normally read were included (Clive Cussler, Star Trek etc) so it's not so great as they make out.”

I know. I none of the books I read are available either.
stud u like
24-09-2014
I have had a glance at it and they don't have the books I like either.

No professional cook books that I can see with names I recognise. I looked through seven pages and it was a load of diet books.

I also would like to know who is doing the narration for the books. Some voices can be hard on the ears.

Gay and Lesbian section only 3 books interested me and they were cheap on the plain Kindle!

Perhaps I need to wait for it to improve?
kate36
24-09-2014
I've subscribed to the free trial, it looks great and i've got a couple of books that would have cost me a lot of money, outside my audible credits...will see how it goes!! i dont think 7.99 is a bad price, seems good value, though as other posters here say, not every book is available, it wouldn't be sound financial sense for amazon to do this as they would probably lose a lot of money from book purchases!

currently listening to 'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell, and narrated by the wonderful Prunella Scales
stud u like
25-09-2014
Originally Posted by kate36:
“I've subscribed to the free trial, it looks great and i've got a couple of books that would have cost me a lot of money, outside my audible credits...will see how it goes!! i dont think 7.99 is a bad price, seems good value, though as other posters here say, not every book is available, it wouldn't be sound financial sense for amazon to do this as they would probably lose a lot of money from book purchases!

currently listening to 'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell, and narrated by the wonderful Prunella Scales”

It is free to begin with though which is a bit of a con! It also does not say who is narrating. Do they add the narrator/trix's name to it when I have coughed up 8 quid? Or was I looking in the wrong place as "Cranford" read by Prunella Scales is £12.85.
Sue_C
25-09-2014
It looks as though the selection of books is the same as those available from the Kindle lending library through Prime, the difference being that you're not limited to just one a month with Unlimited. The selection is a bit eclectic but I have a wishlist of 20 or so that I'd quite like to read.

Amazon have been promoting Whispersync between Audible and KIndle books for a few weeks. I got the Audiible version of Cranford (Prunella Scales) for free and A Tale of Two Cities (Martin Jarvis) for 99p because I already owned the (free) Kindle versions.

I already have Prime and recently bought a year's worth of Audible credits, so I don't think that Kindle Unlimited is for me at the moment.
oilman
25-09-2014
Originally Posted by kate36:
“I've subscribed to the free trial, it looks great and i've got a couple of books that would have cost me a lot of money, outside my audible credits...will see how it goes!! i dont think 7.99 is a bad price, seems good value, though as other posters here say, not every book is available, it wouldn't be sound financial sense for amazon to do this as they would probably lose a lot of money from book purchases!

currently listening to 'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell, and narrated by the wonderful Prunella Scales”

This service is a bit like using Netflix - you start off watching every file/show you have always wanted to watch but once you have got through that backlog, your use declines and often you can reach point where its not really worth continuing.

Of course, Netflix as well as any other subscription service basically relies on people's apathy to cancel subscriptions even though the service is not being used much.

Over a year, you would spend c. £96 on a series of books that you probably would not have bothered with. You could have bought approx 20 books that you did like.

On the other hand, if you are an avid reader who will read anything, this could be the greatest service available. When I used to commute to London 90+ mins each way, I read load of books and was forever buying new ones at train stations.
Mandark
02-10-2014
Oops wrong thread!?
centauri72
03-10-2014
Worth noting too that it's not really Unlimited. You can download up to ten books at a go, but beyond that have to operate a "one out, one in" system. Sure, you may not want more than ten on the go anyway, but it is "limited" not "unlimited".
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