After the music and video, it is the turn of ebooks to be open to abundance offers. The Amazon e-commerce group is preparing to offer its offer in France Kindle Unlimited , already available in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
This gives access for a small fee (9.99 dollars per month in the United States) to a catalog of 600,000 books which subscribers access control (10 titles Simultaneous renewable) as their subscription is active, the image of video and audio streaming services.
The newspaper Le Figaro notes, however, that the bid is ebooks constituted out some bestsellers like Harry Potter, mainly of self-published authors , the big names in publishing in the United States have refused to open their catalog for this job that makes them fear a loss of the value of the book, which then becomes a mere object of consumption.
Some publishers in the UK also had the unpleasant surprise of finding their integrated into the Kindle Unlimited offers securities against their will. This does not prevent Amazon’s offer to continue to unfold, after an initial launch last July, to Germany during the Book Fair Frankfurt , and soon in France, on a date which is still secret, and whose list of partners is not known.
The offer extends Unlimited Kindle in Europe amid rather stretched between Amazon and a growing number of authors and publishers annoyed by his aggressive pricing practices and its leverage on the edge of legality.
As for political power also, Amazon operation, especially in the field of tax optimization used to slash prices on the markets and contain its competitors, is subject to regular reviews.
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