Unlimited Kindle: Amazon integrated audio books from Audible – H

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Amazon expands the range of rental service Kindle Unlimited now on a large number of audiobooks of the subsidiary Audible. Thus, the user has now over 2,000 German and English audio books available.

Representing over 150,000 titles available at Audible, however, the new offer includes only a small part Catalogue of the audiobook specialists. As with the E-book deal where offered by more than 850,000 titles for current information only 50,000 in German language are available, the German-language offer is still manageable even when the audio books. In addition to numerous available on other streaming portals titles, including releases from Bastion-Luebbe, Amazon offers below Kindle Unlimited also exclusive, previously only available via Audible Audiobooks. However, these include, in most cases, only self-publisher title or deals which have been published, among other things Crossing Amazon or Amazon Publishing. The monthly amount of 9,99 EUR remains intact here

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   Amazon integrated audio books from Audible in Kindle Unlimited

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It is also possible the already introduced late 2014 synchronization between Kindle e-books and Audible Books” Whispersync for Voice “. This audiobook can be a thing of the entity, where the digital book was last read – and vice versa

The Expanded offering is according to Amazon about all its Kindle. applications be possible. Currently, however, only the mobile apps support the new Audiobook function. It should be noted that the corresponding audio book is thereby fully loaded on each device, which can just quickly pull in unabridged audio books a file size of one gigabyte after themselves. Bitrate or quality levels of the transferring audio files called Amazon not a request therefor from H left the company so far unanswered.

Although Amazon Kindle Unlimited range by integrating could expand audiobooks, the Group some setbacks with respect to the rental service suffered in the past. So many big publishers remain the offer still far away or put on other platforms. But numerous Selfpublisher- and indie authors moved back in the past many of her title after taking this drastic losses were recorded – sometimes up to 75 percent. It also remains to be seen whether Amazon will integrate in the future more Audible Title in the service and how this affects, inter alia, on the subscription offer of Audible, at the purchase at a discounted price of 9.95 euros to the user any audio book per month can – almost exactly the price that would have to apply for Kindle Unlimited