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Originally Posted by booklover6
So I wake up to see New Prime Reading. Now every Prime subscriber can read books for free. Information is limited. But to my just-awake brain it looks like a smaller catalogue than what's in KU. Still, this puts a limit on people wanting to join KU, doesn't it?
I hope someone will be able to ferret out more information. I'd like to know the real details about the difference between Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading.
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No, not really putting a limit on those that want to subscribe to KU. The reason for it is to get one or two of two things accomplished. Well, actually three. First it is yet another reason to join Prime. Second and third to get either sales resulting from "sampling" a series and buying the rest of it outright or to "sample" KU, and joining KU.
You can check out the catalog yourself at
https://smile.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/fd/prime-pr . As of right now it is 1014 books and magazines that are all a subset of KU (1014 out of 1.4 million items). They advertise that you have
Harry Potter in Prime Reading, but as with all series I have seen so far, it only includes the first book. If you want the second book, you either pay for it, or need a KU subscription.
So, my take of it is that it doesn't compete with KU, but is just a cheaper version of it for those that don't read a whole lot to make a full subscription to KU worthwhile.