Amazon Preps Netflix-like Service for Books, Says Report

Amazon is reportedly in talks with publishers to turn a selection of Conflagrate books into a Netflix-like satisfied library as an added bonus for Amazon Prime customers. Under the reported plan, Prime members would reach study a limited number of books for free every month from a program library of aged titles as part of their annual $79 Prime membership fee, according to The The Street Journal.

Prime is a specific program from Amazon that gives you free two-Day shipping and reduced price one-Day shipping on all your Amazon orders for one year. You also get limitless streaming access to a small depository library of movies and Boob tube shows.

Publishing Resistance

It's not clear if the rumored e-Bible Prime library plan would appropriate you to download the books or just save them to your device for a incomprehensive time. Amazon's e-book circulating library idea is still in the formative stages, and publishers are reportedly untrusting of the new Amazon library fearing it could devalue books in the eyes of consumers.

The Whole Package

Perhaps spurred by the reaction to its Undercoat Wink unlimited TV streaming, Amazon hopes to convince more people to join Prime with enticing impart-ons. The company's Prime library might also link to the retail merchant's strategy for its highly rumored, Humanoid-based pill to contend with the iPad.

Similar to Apple, Amazon's slate could offer an integrated shopping experience with indefinite-click entree to online moving-picture show and TV showing, e-book sales, MP3s, and apps. Merely Amazon would also want to encourage people to expend their Amazon tablets to shop for physical items such as TVs, consoles and games, physical books, DVDs, computers, and toys.

And that's where an enticing Choice rank comes in. Amazon Prime members are more likely to shop from the online retail merchant since they want to recoup their $79 annual bung in free shipping. So Prime add-ons much as slaveless books and free, unlimited television streaming could help convince more people to sign leading for Prime of life.

But if Amazon's Prime Instant Video is any guide, Amazon's Inflame lending subroutine library may be nothing to get wild about. You lavatory already get a multitude of books gratis on the Conflagrate, most of which are classics such As Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, Little Women, War and Peace, and Gulliver's Travels. Amazon's digital library would have to offering books a little more substantial than classic tales to convert more Prime members.

The Journal says the deal would include older books. It's just not shiny good how far back these "old titles" will go. I would gauge we're probably talking about a handful of modern books, and then a heavy dose of titles from the Old 2000s, the 90s and earlier. That's siamese to what you get from Prime quantity with popular TV shows on the divine service including The Tudors Season 4 (2010), Doctor Who Season 4 (2007), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Flavour 1 (1993), and movies such as The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009).

Those titles may not match Netflix's streaming offerings, only for online shoppers already thinking about signing up with Amazon Prime it could be enough to tip the scales in Amazon's favor. Impart to that an expanded library of free books on Kindle, and Prime may be beseeching sufficient to win over more digital consumers.

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