“Even the most voracious readers will take a few months to get the most out of Amazon.com’s latest offer: access to 600,000 eBooks and 2,000 audio books for a monthly fee of US$9.99. What publishers and authors will get out of it remains to be seen.
Subscribers to the new service, available only in the U.S. for now, will see a “Read for Free” logo next to included titles when they are logged in and browsing the company’s catalog online from a Kindle device or using the Kindle reading app on a PC.
Amazon is offering a 30-day free trial of the service, and new subscribers will get free access to the 150,000-title Audible audio book library for three months, it said.”
