Amazon Launches Netflix-Like Kindle Service For $9.99

(RTTNews) - Amazon unveiled a new subscription service that allows its book-reading customers to read and listen to as many ebooks as they want for a monthly fee.

Named Kindle Unlimited, the service has a catalog of 600,000 books which can be accessed from Kindle e-book readers as well as the Kindle apps for other smartphones and tablets. A complimentary three-month membership on Audible, the company's digital library of professionally narrated audiobooks, is also available with every subscription, Amazon said in a statement.

The e-commerce giant recently announced a similar subscription-based facility for music, which however was bundled with Amazon Prime. Kindle Unlimited is a standalone service that appears to be targeted at voracious readers who can justify shelling out $9.99 a month.

"With Kindle Unlimited, you won't have to think twice before you try a new author or genre—you can just start reading and listening," said Russ Grandinetti, Senior Vice President, Kindle.

Kindle Unlimited is available as a free 30-day trial at Amazon. The library includes popular titles such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Harry Potter series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Water for Elephants, Oh Myyy! - There Goes The Internet. A collection of classic and children's books is available as well.

For those how love audiobooks, there are more than 2,000 available from Audible for titles such as Hunger Games trilogy, Life of Pi, The Handmaid's Tale, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, The Great Santini, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Winter's Tale, Boardwalk Empire.