Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited
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Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited
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#2"Enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks"
@Audiobooks, does this mean they're replacing Audible?
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#3I would pay something similar just to browse selected sites all month long without encountering a hundred different pay walls.
for a voracious reader like myself this might be a great money saver depending on what is excluded. However it is quite possible to have more than you read for free just by surfing Amazon for all the free ebooks
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#4"Enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks" @Audiobooks, does this mean they're replacing Audible?
Answering my own question a bit, it appears to be "no" (at least short term) -- there's a new Kindle Books with Narration in Kindle Unlimited category with only a couple thousand titles http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=9630682011
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#5Awesome. This is a nail in the coffin for Oyster or whatever that other app was. You can't beat Amazon's selection or prices, and this just makes the Netflix comparison even better. Oof. Sucks for competition, good for my Kindle and my wallet.
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#6Interesting. I wonder what this implies for authors. Amazon might take a cut currently, but the lion's share ends up with the author -- a royalty based scheme significantly changes the playing field, and I worry that it could be for the worse (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25217353).
EDIT -- and what it implies for publishers.
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#7So they must be testing various parts of the Amazon Prime value proposition as piecework services. Lets see 'Unlimited {video | kindle | music}' for 9.95 each or get all three for $24.95. Seems Kindle is a safer way to start since neither Spotify or Netflix is going to respond competitively to book reader services.
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#8Once you get past the big name books where Amazon is probably subsidizing the costs, a lot of the content is Amazon-published. I wonder what that compensation looks like.
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#9Suddenly the disgruntled publishers makes sense.
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#10Awesome. This is a nail in the coffin for Oyster or whatever that other app was. You can't beat Amazon's selection or prices, and this just makes the Netflix comparison even better. Oof. Sucks for competition, good for my Kindle and my wallet.
Unclear what subset of all Kindle books would be included.
http://gigaom.com/2014/07/16/amazon-is-testing-kindle-unlimi...
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No big-5 publisher appears to be participating yet, based on my preliminary glance through the test pages. Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have both made their ebooks available to Scribd and Oyster, but I haven’t yet seen books from those publishers on the Kindle Unlimited page, though I’m not done poking through all 600,000+ titles yet.
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