After the music and video, eBook is in turn thrown into the unlimited arena at all. Amazon has just launched Kindle Unlimited , a service that provides access to a catalog of more than 700,000 ebooks, including 20 000 in French, 9.99 € / month (a current introductory offer until 10 January 2015 allows you to pay 0.99 € the first month subscription) . These books can be viewed from its Kindle reading light, or from the Kindle reading applications installed on smartphone or tablet (Android or iOS).
Amazon boasts a wide and varied catalog, consisting of novels, short stories , children’s books or practical guides. So we were a little disappointed looking after each other in vain, the top ten list of the best books of sales (1). Blake and Mortimer – Volume 23: The stick Plutarch ? Absent. Charlotte , David Foenkinos? Absent. No crying, the Prix Goncourt in 2014, Lydie Salvayre? Absent! The new features are clearly still reserved for the purchase to the act (digital or paper, for that matter). Take less recent works, those of Amélie Nothomb, for example. Or Franz-Olivier Giesbert. Or Simone de Beauvoir. Stephen King. Absent, absent, absent. “All editors did not wish to integrate their catalog program. Some prefer to observe before launching “, says Marie-Pierre Sangouard, director of Kindle content. Thus neither Gallimard nor Hachette nor Actes Sud will participate. In reality, the catalog is quite thin, and is a little dated works in the public domain or self-published. He finally represents a small proportion of the total catalog of ebooks from Amazon, which has 3 million shares, of which 180,000 in French.
10 pounds simultaneously
As part of the Service Kindle Unlimited, customers can download as many books as they want during the month. But they can only hold 10 simultaneously. 11 th , you must delete one. This restriction, according to the manager, to limit abuse. In use, the dozen books enough to always have to put in the tooth. Especially as the selected books are available immediately on all devices via the Kindle reading application. Read a comic or a travel guide is nicer on the color screen of a tablet or smartphone as a
No more 10 pounds at the same time! In the 11th, a message prompts the user to “make” a title to be able to download a new one.
Books devalued?
This provides plenty raises the same issues as those in place for the music or video: publishers, authors, booksellers, everyone he finds there his account? This “normalization” of the book does not make him risk losing value to consumers? Difficult to know precisely how are paid authors and publishers, each publisher who negotiated the contract with Amazon. But the calculation is necessarily based on a principle of proportionality in relation to the number of downloads books, like music streaming or video on demand. As for the devaluation of books, Amazon does not. “On the contrary, it places the book in the center of digital entertainment. The service can attract new readers, such as students or young people “, says Marie-Pierre Sangouard. Time will tell if they are waiting for you and if Kindle Unlimited turned them, a time at least, their other screens.
(1) EDISTAT, week 8 to 14 December 2014.
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