E-books Go Out of Fashion As Book Sales Revive / Amazon Prepares E-Book Subscription Service每月9.99美元的無限量電子書和有聲書服務

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E-books Go Out of Fashion As Book Sales Revive

U.K. bookstores report increased demand for physical books

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馬遜公司(Amazon.com Inc.)表示將提供每月9.99美元的無限量電子書和有聲書服務，華爾街預計此舉將給亞馬遜帶來最高10億美元的收入增長。

這一名為“Kindle Unilimited”的服務允許讀者無限量閱讀Kindle電子書，并無限量聆聽有聲書。亞馬遜目前擁有60萬種電子書和數千種有聲書。

這一服務可以通過Kindle閱讀器和蘋果iOS系統以及谷歌安卓操作系統中的亞馬遜Kindle應用獲取。亞馬遜稱將為這一服務提供30天免費試用期。 

Amazon Prepares E-Book Subscription Service

Amazon.com AMZN +0.44% appears to be preparing a subscription e-book service offering unlimited access to 600,000 titles, according to details the Web retailer briefly posted to its website.

The service, reported earlier by GigaOm, would be called Kindle Unlimited and allow customers to download select e-books for $9.99 per month. Kindle Unlimited would compete with startups like Oyster and Scribd, which offer 500,000 and 400,000 e-books, respectively, for $8.99 or $9.95 a month.

Among the titles seen on the Kindle Unlimited page were former bestsellers like “Life of Pi,” “Water for Elephants” and “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.” The page is no longer visible. An Amazon spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Subscription e-books services have struggled to draw the newest releases from publishers, who are reluctant to forgo e-book and physical-copy sales that tend to be more profitable.

Amazon has been aggressively launching new services and products this year, including unlimited streaming music and devices like the Fire TV set-top box and Fire smartphone, due out later this month.

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