The Kindle Unlimited (KU) program is an Amazon subscription program that allows subscribers to read
an unlimited number of eBooks for a monthly fee.
For the low, low price of $ 9.99 a month, Amazon.com will let readers download
an unlimited number of ebooks and audiobooks from its special Kindle Unlimited store.
eBay.com: eBay is more than a bidding store — you can sell
unlimited numbers of eBooks at a set price on eBay.com or set up your own store.
Billed as the Netflix of reading, ebook subscriptions have kept a similar pricepoint — Oyster's is $ 9.95 a month for both the app - based and web - based option to read
unlimited numbers of ebooks — while trying to offer compelling content.
Not exact matches
4) Once any
eBook with DRM is purchased and downloaded, you can TRANSFER it back and forth on any
of your authorized machines / devices an
unlimited number of times.
The
number of people who can read your book is
unlimited as well, especially the
ebook version.
This details matters because in July
of last year Amazon started paying authors and publishers with
ebooks in Kindle
Unlimited by the
number of pages read, rather than the
number of times an
ebook is borrowed.
From the Pricing Tool page that just went live (in your Dashboard): FREE
ebooks - If your book is priced at FREE, the library will have the option to check it out to an
unlimited number of library patrons.
The
number one thing that irritates me about the whole thing is how Amazon deceptively highlights the $ 0.00 price for Kindle
ebooks that are available as part
of their Kindle
Unlimited subscription plan.
The
number of patrons who could access the
ebook would potentially be
unlimited, however, the loan period would still exist (usually a 2 week period).
Books that are showcased on the Ganxy platform can be given specific download codes, from one copy to an
unlimited number of copies, and can also be arranged for user - friendly bulk sales
of ebooks.
For those not familiar with KDP, the red graph shows paid
ebook sales, and the blue shows the
number of pages
of my
ebook read each day by subscribers to Kindle
Unlimited (We get paid around half a cent per page read)
Not all
of Amazon's Kindle
ebooks are available through Kindle
Unlimited, but the
number of available titles has risen since the list leaked a couple
of days ago.
There are a
number of ebook subscription services cropping up lately, but Scribd is the only one offering audiobooks in addition to
ebooks, along with Amazon's Kindle
Unlimited service.
Publishers receive a free co-branded
ebook store at Smashwords, from which they can list an
unlimited number of authors and their authors» books within the publisher's store.
Sony has bundled a
number of applications that access various parts
of the existing Sony machine: Music
Unlimited and Video
Unlimited, for music and video downloads and Reader, for handling
ebooks.
Given an
unlimited number of books to read and full access to any title I wanted, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd prefer to read a traditional print book over an
ebook any day.
As we all wait with bated breath for the 15th (or thereabouts)
of the month which will reveal August's borrow rate for
ebooks on Kindle
Unlimited (my bet is on a range
of $ 1.60 - $ 1.70), I thought I'd set out a few
numbers I've crunched about the effects
of the first couple
of months
of Kindle
Unlimited and the
ebook subscription business in general.
Kindle
Unlimited, which comprises mainly
of self - published
ebooks, operates largely on a different basis in that Amazon sets a KDP Global fund each month and then pays out from that fund to authors according to the
number of pages read for their books.