{"id":15197,"date":"2014-07-18T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15197"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:07:40","slug":"amazon-trying-ebook-subscription-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15197","title":{"rendered":"Amazon trying eBook Subscription Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Amazon Kindle Unlimited still limited\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/kindle-unlimited-is-here-read-as-much-as-you-like-for-1607102901?utm_source=PourOver&amp;utm_medium=App.net&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+(Gizmodo)\"><strong>Gizmodo<\/strong><\/a> reports on Amazon&#8217;s new attempt to dominate\u00a0the eBook marketplace\u00a0with <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong>. They&#8217;re offering &#8220;unlimited&#8221; eBook reads for a single <strong>$10 per month membership<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a shot across the bow for eBook subscription services <strong>Oyster<\/strong> and <strong>Scribd<\/strong>, and extends Amazon&#8217;s\u00a0exclusionary reading environment because this\u00a0service will only list titles by\u00a0authors and publishers that have agreed to sell their eBooks through <strong>Amazon&#8217;s KDP select<\/strong> for Kindle and nowhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Titles by authors and publishers that have published for <strong>Amazon Kindle<\/strong> but opted out of\u00a0the<strong> KDP select program <\/strong>will not be available in <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo reports on Amazon&#8217;s new attempt to dominate\u00a0the eBook marketplace\u00a0with Kindle Unlimited. They&#8217;re offering &#8220;unlimited&#8221; eBook reads for a single $10 per month membership. This is a shot across the bow for eBook subscription services Oyster and Scribd, and extends Amazon&#8217;s\u00a0exclusionary reading environment because this\u00a0service will only list titles by\u00a0authors and publishers that have agreed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15197\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,6,12,15,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15197"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15208,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15197\/revisions\/15208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}