Amazon Prime Reading a new flat rate for ebooks?

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Although the flat rates ebooks have been a before and after in the world of the ebook, it is true that there are still many users who do not know this type of services. To this situation must be added the fall of several streaming reading services, such as the famous Oyster or Skoobe. And in this situation, Amazon, which leads the sector with Kindle Unlimited, has decided to take another turn of the screw with a new service called Amazon Prime Reading. But What is this new service? Is it compatible with any eReader? What will happen to Kindle Unlimited? Next we tell you what this new service is and where it is located within the Amazon ecosystem.

What is Amazon Prime Reading?

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Amazon Prime Reading is a new unlimited reading service for Amazon Prime users. We can classify it as one more ebook flat rate that competes with Nubico, Kindle Unlimited or Scribd, to name a few. Amazon Prime Reading does not contain all the ebooks that Amazon Kindle Unlimited contains but it also does not have that low quality that the various authors of ebooks have given as they are the ones who decide to be or not in the Kindle Unlimited service. So we can say that Amazon Prime Reading is a premium flat rate where quality stands out over quantity. At least for the moment. Thus, when we open the Amazon Prime Reading catalog we see that the ebooks are divided by genre: suspense, horror, science fiction, police, youth, Looney Planet guides and non-fiction books.

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The money bag for the payment of readings per page, something that made Amazon's first streaming e-book service famous, is not initially available on this service, that is, Amazon negotiates directly with the authors and they decide what price to set for the rental or loan of the ebooks and do not create a bag with all the income from the service and set the price per page reading.

How can you have Amazon Prime Reading?

Any user can have Amazon Prime Reading and for a lower price than Kindle Unlimited, We just have to be members of Amazon Prime and then join the Amazon Prime Reading service. This membership will not involve any extra costs and will be compatible with both other Amazon Prime services and Kindle Unlimited.

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The devices compatible with Amazon Prime Reading will be all, that is, ereaders, tablets and apps for mobile devices, thus being possible to read anywhere. Once we have all this done, we just have to look for a reading and if it belongs to the Amazon Prime Reading catalog, check the button "read free" and it will appear on our reading device. For the moment we have a limit of 10 simultaneous ebooks, so if we have covered the quota, we only have to uncheck an ebook that we have already read and mark the new ebook. All from the Amazon management platform.

How is it different from Kindle Unlimited?

We must emphasize the fact that The main difference between Amazon Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited is in the number of ebooks that each service has available to its customers and their quality. But, as we have mentioned before, Amazon Prime Reading is full of readings curated, examined and studied to enjoy the most of each reading while Kindle Unlimited does not have it or at least we have to do it ourselves.

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At the moment this is the main difference between the two services. There are other differences such as the price of the service or the titles that can be read simultaneously.

The price is clear that Amazon Prime Reading is cheaper than Kindle Unlimited, since Kindle Unlimited has a price of 9,99 euros per month while Amazon Prime Reading has a cost of 19,95 euros per year. Amazon Prime Reading is accompanied by Prime Video, Amazon Prime and other services that Amazon is joining to this premium service. In short, the price difference between one service and another is obvious. The other differences between Amazon's reading services are not so obvious.

An important function within Amazon services is the number of ebooks that we can read simultaneously. While Kindle Unlimited allows you to read several ebooks at the same time although not on all the devices that we would like, Amazon Prime Reading only allows you to read 10 titles at a time, having to leave a title if we want to add a new ebook.

It is true that this feature makes the service somewhat tedious, at least for those who only want to select and read, but it is also true that the Amazon Prime Reading catalog is not so large, half a thousand ebooks approximately, as to have a quota of ebooks higher.

And you, what option do you get from these flat rates?

We got to the point that many of you are waiting for What service is worth it?

For the most demanding users with their readings, Amazon Prime Reading is a great option, possibly many of these titles have already read them. But it is true that the price vulture flies around Amazon Prime Reading.

For months, several sources close to Amazon They are announcing that Amazon will raise the Amazon Prime share, from 19,95 euros to 40 or 100 euros per year, which would raise the price of these services and as a consequence, the cost of Kindle Unlimited would be lower. But it is also true that the price change has not yet been applied nor is it known when it will be applied, so we can take advantage of the price for now and enjoy at least half a year of Prime services.

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Personally, I lean towards the flat rate of Kindle Unlimited and would recommend this service both for users who are looking for curated readings and for users whose readings with low quality are indifferent Why? Well, because Kindle Unlimited has more ebooks and a reasonably low price (not as low as Amazon Prime Reading), leaving the curation of content to me, something that we can all do and even better than many experts or Artificial Intelligence since there is no one better than us to know and know our literary tastes.

But, if we really want to get good readings quickly or we are users who buy everything through the Amazon store, perhaps the best thing for the moment is Amazon Prime Reading, not only for its readings but also for free shipping that Amazon still offers for its more premium customers.


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  1.   Tonino said

    It's actually just a rehash of all the books that have passed through Kindle Flash (I wouldn't be surprised if it disappeared one day for the benefit of Prime Reading)
    Besides, I imagine that there will also be many first volumes of sagas so that later you pay for the rest.

    But if it is free then there is no possible complaint. Nobody offers anything similar in other stores.

  2.   Jorge Luis Cruz Perez said

    I am in Mexico, therefore I buy from Amazon in the United States. Are free shipping only within the United States or international shipments as well? I ask why, after a month, I wanted to buy more than the amount indicated so that my shipping is free, as indicated by the Amazon platform, and the restriction was that it only applies to shipments within the United States. Thank you, good day.

  3.   second barayazarra said

    How can I unsubscribe from prime reading I hope a greeting reply