Canadian eReader

As I anticipated in my reading roundup, this morning Amazon launched its ebook and audiobook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited.  It’s not yet available to Canadians, but I was able to use my company’s US address to sign up for the 30 day free trial to check it all out. Kindle Unlimited is competing with other ebook subscription services such as Scribd and Oyster.  I currently have a Scribd subscription, but I tend not to use it very much, mainly because it’s not tightly integrated with the rest of my ebook library.  Also, I’m not so fond of the app for Android – it doesn’t have the same options as full Kindle books. The good Like most of the Amazon ecosystem, Kindle Unlimited is very easy to use.  You can browse the titles from the Kindle Unlimited link on the homepage: When you choose a title it will say Read for Free Also you can navigate from your Kindle Fire:  a KU book will say Read for Free Note that you cannot pick up audiobooks on their own.  They must be paired with a Kindle Unlimited ebook with Whispersync for Voice.  There is a section called Listen and Take the Story…

I’m back from my few days away in Ottawa and ready to get back into blogging.  We travelled by coach, so I was able to listen to an audiobook, which this time was Erika Johannsen’s Queen of the Tearling.   One of the big pieces of news in the book world this week has been Amazon’s rumoured subscription service, Kindle Unlimited.  According to “leaked” webpages, Amazon is preparing a service whereby for $10 a month, the subscriber will have unlimited access to 600,000 Kindle ebooks AND Audible audiobooks.  If that were true, it could be a very interesting service.  However, I had a couple of concerns.  I understand that none of the Big Six publishing houses (Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins, Random House, Simon & Schuster) are involved in the scheme, although I wouldn’t swear to it.   My second concern was whether or not this would be available to those of us outside of the US.  The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library isn’t available to us Canadians for example, so I doubted that Kindle Unlimited would be available here.  However, today I was browsing my Amazon.com Manage Your Content and Devices and I saw a section for Kindle Unlimited, with sections…