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Amazon briefly put up and then removed a page on its website for an unlimited e-book and audiobook subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, as first reported by Gigaom.
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A signup page for the service was spotted by multiple users on Twitter
on Wednesday. According to a cache of that page (see below), Amazon
plans to offer users unlimited access to 600,000 digital books for $9.99
a month. Reps for Amazon did not immediately respond to our request for comment.
The e-book subscription space took off in late 2013 when startups Oyster and Scribd launched unlimited Netflix-style subscription services for e-books. Both Oyster and Scribd reached partnerships with a number of publishers, including two of the big five publishing houses.
Amazon's pricing is comparable to Oyster and Scribd, which charge $9.95 a month and $8.99 a month, respectively. Of course, Amazon has the advantage of a much larger existing customer base.
We've reached out to Oyster and Scribd for comment on the rumor and will update this post when we hear back.
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