The Four-One-One on
KOLL & Kindle Unlimited
By Judith Cullen
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| Image courtesy of Jeri Lloyd and her trusty devices - Thanks! |
Do you own a Kindle or use a free Kindle app on your computer? Do you download electronic books from Amazon? If you have answered “yes” to any of these questions, here are some important tidbits of information, and we all know that information is golden. You might already know this, though information like this tends to come in very small print on the users end.
Amazon has two great programs for Kindle users: the Kindle
Owners Lending Library (KOLL) and the new Kindle Unlimited. Authors/Publishers are allowed to make their
titles available through these programs based on options they are given when
they upload their books and manage the title's settings for distribution.
KOLL is a
benefit of Amazon Prime membership and allows you to choose from over 800,000
books, which you borrow for free with no due date. This program only works for people who have
Kindle devices. So if you have
downloaded a Kindle Reader program onto a PC, you are out of luck.
For a set monthly subscription fee, Kindle
Unlimited lets you explore over a million titles on any device that has
a Kindle Reader app program. Additionally,
Kindle Listening makes titles for which there are both text and audio formats available
wherever you see “Kindle Unlimited with Narration” listed.
