Kindle Unlimited lend you 10 files to make after use – TorrentFreak

Unlimited Amazon Kindle service is formally introduced as a private library, which offers its members to borrow up to 10 digital books simultaneously. Or rather 10 files, users must “return” when they have more utility.

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That is, the hypocrisy generated by the legal structure designed by Amazon. The U.S. giant has opened today in the United States its Kindle Unlimited Service, which allows for unlimited access to a selection of over 600,000 eBooks to read on a screen, for 9.99 euros per month. But officially it is not a rental. This is a private library, with its own rules.

Thus Amazon hopes away in France the law on the single selling price of books electronic, and its implementing decree which however leaves no doubt that the provision of eBooks files under DRM is intended by the legislature.

“membership”

The conditions proposed by the Amazon United States, which are certainly very similar to those provided in France, are of exemplary writing. The lawyers of the firm have ensured never use any term that might characterize the transaction.

The words “sales”, “vacation” or even “loan” does not appear in the contract, which uses the term “accession” to “program” Kindle Unlimited. “ If your membership ends, you will no longer have access to the titles you selected from the program “, simply say Amazon.

10 books at a time

You have to go in with Kindle Unlimited to see that it is stated that” you can store up to 10 books at a time and there is no return date . ” Thus, as if they used the services of a library and went to the home to make the borrowed books before you can borrow more, Kindle users can download Unlimited files up to 10 eBooks read on their tablet, but must “return” each of the books they no longer want to keep. A purely virtual operation which has no legal interest.

So Kindle Unlimited is a large private library that participates in its own program of Kindle lending. But a library that could quickly supplant all others, and make it very unattractive “small booksellers,” the law of the single price of digital books was supposed to protect.