After the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Germany (since October), Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited in France .
The offering consists of a subscription service providing unlimited access to a library of over 20,000 titles in French and 700,000 in other languages.
Amazon highlights the ease of access to such works as the subscription allows you to read all e-readers Kindle Fire tablet and Amazon but also via the free Kindle apps on iOS (iPhone , iPad and iPoad Touch), Android, Windows Phone, Mac and Windows 8 .
The subscription to 9.99 euros a month is terminable at any time. But access to books is lost, in the same way as the music streaming offers (Deezer, Spotify …) or video by SVoD (like the model of Netflix). In order to promote the new offering, Amazon France offers until January 11 the first month to 0.99 euros.
To expand the supply of Kindle Unlimited, the group has established Jeff Bezos partnerships with several publishing houses. Catalog and includes works of Bragelonne editor (fantasy, fantasy and science fiction) such as “Milady” and “Manuscript.”
Children’s literature is also part thanks to Fleurus editions and Primento which also offers reading cards. There are also tracks on welfare with Youth or editions of the works of La Musardine (erotic genre). The catalog is also expanded free public domain classics such as “The Iliad” and books Editions Eyrolles practices.
But Amazon is also bangs the big publishers, absent from the catalog, with focus on exclusives, such as “Granny in Nettles’ Aurélie Valognes. It is actually self-published books via dedicated platform Amazon very attractive for unknown authors. This type of works and monopolize already best sellers spaces on the Kindle platform.
Amazon also highlights integrated functionality in WordWise eReaders Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite facilitates the reading in English with short definitions positioned above “difficult” words. An invitation to read English books, numbering over 600,000 Kindle Unlimited.
The launch of Kindle Unlimited in France should sound like a bombshell for large French publishing houses. The Internet company was until recently in conflict with Hachette Book Group (HBG) the name of the American branch of Hachette Livre (Lagardère group) on the price of the works.
Amazon France has also distinguished bypassing cleverly Filippetti the law that prohibits free postage to preserve bestseller. The chapter is far from over with this offer unlimited subscription that is sure to react the major French publishers very attached to the book price in France.
Note that for the hexagon, other platforms already offer similar services such as Youboox (a free offer with limited advertising and catalog and another 9,999 euros per month) and YouScribe.
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