Kindle Store

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Kindle Store
Developer
Kindle reader

Pricing modelVariable
Availabilityover 170 countries[1]
Websitewww.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I15SB16/
The New Yorker digital subscription via the Kindle Store

The Kindle Store is an

Whispernet to bring the content to the user's device.[6]
One of the innovations Amazon brought to the store was one-click purchasing which allowed users to quickly purchase an e-book. The Kindle Store uses a recommendation engine that looks at purchase history, browsing history, and reading activity, and then suggests material it thinks the user will like.

Features

Whispersync

Whispersync is a service provided for e-books acquired from the Kindle Store that allows customers to synchronize reading progress, bookmarks, and other information across Kindle devices and Kindle apps.[7][8] The service debuted with the Kindle 2's release in February 2009.[9]

Lending Library

The Lending Library was added in late 2011 for

Fire tablets; as of February 2018, the service had over 1.7 million titles available.[11]

Kindle Unlimited

In July 2014, Amazon added the Kindle Unlimited subscription service that initially offered unlimited access to over 638,000 titles and over 7,000

audiobooks for a $9.99 monthly fee.[12][13] As of June 2015, there were over one million titles available in Kindle Unlimited,[14] from publishers such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, Simon & Schuster, Wizarding World Digital, and Workman Publishing Company.[15] As of February 2017, the U.S. version of Kindle Unlimited includes over 1.5 million titles includes over 290,000 foreign language titles.[16] Amazon pays authors by using a per-page rate and during 2016 nearly $200 million was paid to authors. In 2019, Amazon paid over $300 million to authors and publishers that provide content to Kindle Unlimited.[17]

Prime Reading

In October 2016, another perk was added for Amazon Prime members called "Prime Reading". Prime Reading gives the ability to read as much material as they wish from a selection of over 1,000 e-books, magazines, comic books, children's books, and more for no additional fee.[18]

E-book pricing

In late 2007, new releases and

Christmas Day 2009.[20]
International users may pay different prices for e-books depending on the country listed as their home address.

In February 2017, the Association of American Publishers released data that shows the U.S. adult e-book market declined 16.9% in the first nine months of 2016 over the same time in 2015.[21] This decline is partly due to widespread e-book price increases, known as agency pricing, by major publishers that Amazon had recently allowed bringing the average e-book price from $6 to nearly $10.[22]

File formats

The Kindle Store offers e-books in Amazon's proprietary e-book formats: AZW, and, for fourth-generation and later Kindles, AZW3, also called KF8.[23] In August 2015, the "Kindle Format 10" (KFX) file format, which has enhanced typography, was added to the Store.[24] E-books available in KFX are indicated on the e-book's description page.

The Kindle Store's

terms of use forbid transferring Amazon format e-books to another user or a different type of device.[25] However, Amazon allows limited lending of certain e-books.[26]

Country availability

Country Availability on local site Domain name Notes
United States Yes amazon.com/kindlestore
Germany Yes amazon.de/kindlestore
United Kingdom Yes amazon.co.uk/kindlestore
France Yes amazon.fr/kindlestore
Japan Yes amazon.co.jp/kindlestore
China Yes amazon.cn/kindlestore The Chinese Kindle Store has closed on June 30, 2023, and downloadability of purchased books will stop after June 30, 2024[27]
Canada Yes amazon.ca/kindlestore
Italy Yes amazon.it/kindlestore
Spain Yes amazon.es/kindlestore
Brazil Yes amazon.com.br/kindlestore
India Yes amazon.in/kindlestore
Mexico Yes amazon.com.mx/kindlestore
Netherlands Yes amazon.nl/kindlestore
Singapore No amazon.sg/kindlestore [a]
Australia Yes amazon.com.au/kindlestore
Turkey No amazon.com.tr/kindlestore [a]
United Arab Emirates No amazon.ae/kindlestore [a]
Saudi Arabia No amazon.sa/kindlestore [a]
Sweden No amazon.se/kindlestore [a]
Poland No amazon.pl/kindlestore [a]
Egypt No amazon.eg/kindlestore [a]
Other countries TBA amazon.com/kindlestore eBooks can be purchased on the US website amazon.com [28]

See also

References

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