Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and Audiobooks

Re:Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and... by dublinben on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:29PM (#8043646)

Nobody who reads two books a year is going to sign up for this service. Only people who read more than $10 of books per month are going to sign up.

Unlike prime, heavier users don't bring any additional revenue with this program. Prime members spend hundreds of dollars more per year than non-prime customers.

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Re:Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and... by eggoa on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:57PM (#8043845)

Plenty of people (such as myself) find themselves buying several actual hard-copy books a year only to read two or three of them. It's definitely not rational -- maybe call it aspirational.

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Re:Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and... by WalterBright on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @03:39PM (#8044052)

I buy grab-bag boxes of scifi books from ebay. I can't possibly read them all. There's nothing rational about it :-)

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