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Here is Amazon’s new discovery: unlimited playback. Just like Spotify for music or Netflix for video, the giant online retailer plans to launch on the market access to unlimited books through a subscription of course 9.99 dollars per month. The new service called Kindle Unlimited and provides access to a catalog of more than 600,000 digital books and audios. This new offering made its appearance on the American version of the online sales site before being quickly removed.
Gigaom The site is however managed to recover some visual and a video presentation. Subscription does not have the book, just like what is done for the music or video. The issue of copyright is still pending with such a model. According to GigaOm, the major U.S. publishers participate in this new solution, but none of the 5 biggest names instead (HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Penguin, Macmillan and Hachette) not currently part .$ 400 million for Apple
This news comes as Apple could pay up to 400 million dollars in compensation to injured consumers in a cartel on the price of electronic books.
a year ago, a Manhattan judge had found Apple guilty of having conspired illegally with 5 publishers in the months before the launch of its iPad tablet in 2010, to increase the price of electronic books. publishers were accused of colluding with each other to eliminate competition in the sale of e-books retail, increasing the price of ebooks at the expense of industry leader at the time, Amazon. New York Judge Denise Cote was estimated that Apple had orchestrated this agreement. The IT group has appealed.
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