Kindle wasn’t always the ubiquitously available service that it is today. Some libraries and companies offered PDF versions of less popular texts, but you had to read them on your notebook or desktop.

Media and tech companies have been quick to pronounce the “Netflix of eBooks” -- a.k.a. the subscription model -- the future of digital content. And, in theory, that makes sense. Who doesn’t want ...

Nearly a decade after Amazon launched its Kindle Unlimited service that lets you pay a monthly fee for access to a library of millions of eBooks (and a smaller number of audiobooks), rival Kobo is ...

After months of rumors and a leak earlier this week, Amazon officially unveiled its entrance into the ebook subscription market today with Kindle Unlimited, a service that offers readers access to 600 ...

Streaming services like Netflix and Spotify have already changed the way we watch movies and listen to music, but book subscription services have taken a little longer to catch on. Now it looks like ...

On Wednesday, a webpage for Kindle Unlimited—a subscription service where users can “enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month,” ...

Check out four things that have happened in the ebook world in just the past couple months: — Amazon announced that, for the self-published titles in its Kindle Unlimited subscription program, it’s ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Oyster has ...

Ebook subscription services are not particularly new — Amazon launched its Kindle Unlimited service in 2014 while Scribd has been mainly known as an ebook subscription service since 2013. Now that ...

The digital library, e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd has surpassed one million paying subscribers from across the globe, as the service announced today. Co-founder and CEO Trip Adler ...

About two years after launching a “Netflix for eBooks” service, the folks at Oyster are calling it quits. The team announced on its blog that they’re “taking steps to sunset the existing Oyster ...

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