{"id":15814,"date":"2015-02-12T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15814"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:40:22","slug":"kindle-unlimited-spreads-to-canada-and-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15814","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Unlimited spreads to Canada and Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kindle Unlimited continues to spread\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/02\/12\/amazon-launches-its-ebook-subscription-service-kindle-unlimited-in-canada-its-third-market\/\"><strong>VentureBeat<\/strong><\/a> says <strong>Amazon<\/strong> has launched its <strong>Kindle Unlimited eBook subscription service<\/strong> in <strong>Canada<\/strong> and <strong>Mexico<\/strong>. This despite a growing chorus of authors and publishing professionals who say the &#8220;<em><strong>$9.99\/month, all you can eat<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; eBook borrowing service undermines the value of eBooks while seriously damaging the financial stability of up and coming writers and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>The article unfairly tries to compare <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> to other eBook subscription services.\u00a0<strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> authors are forced to deal exclusively with <strong>Amazon<\/strong> for a &#8220;share&#8221; of a fund set at an ever-changing amount that the Kindle-maker determines behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>Competing eBook subscription services <a title=\"Oyster eBook subscription service\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oysterbooks.com\/\"><strong>Oyster<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"Scribd eBook subscription service\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/\"><strong>Scribd<\/strong><\/a> charge reader-members monthly fees of <strong>$9.95<\/strong> and <strong>$8.99<\/strong> respectively, but boast an author-friendly royalty structure and do not demand author exclusivity to participate.<\/p>\n<p>So long as <strong>Oyster<\/strong> and <strong>Scribd<\/strong> continue to pay royalties to participating authors <em><strong>who are free to distribute their eBooks elsewhere<\/strong><\/em>, then they will remain a viable addition to professional publishing plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> will not be able to make such a claim so long as <strong>Amazon<\/strong> continues to demand exclusivity and refuses to pay fair author royalties for &#8220;borrowed&#8221; titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VentureBeat says Amazon has launched its Kindle Unlimited eBook subscription service in Canada and Mexico. This despite a growing chorus of authors and publishing professionals who say the &#8220;$9.99\/month, all you can eat&#8221; eBook borrowing service undermines the value of eBooks while seriously damaging the financial stability of up and coming writers and publishers. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15814\">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":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814"}],"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=15814"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15828,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}