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Amazon Rapids -- DISCONTINUED

Amazon Rapids has been discontinued

The Amazon Rapids application is no longer supported. To find stories for kids from Amazon, you can use the Amazon Storytime skill on Alexa-enabled devices, listen to audiobooks available through FreeTime Unlimited, or browse the Kindle store for children's books.

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• Released --> Amazon Announces Rapids -- 02 Nov 2016
  
• Changes --> Amazon Rapids is now Free -- 02 Aug 2018
  
  
• Price --> FREE
  
• Trial ---> not needed
  
  
• Catalog --> hundreds of stories for kids ages 5-12
  
• Period --> unlimited listening
  
  
• Format --> app only | Alexa, Android, Fire, iOS
  
• Offline --> not allowed
  
  
• Skills --> Amazon Storytime -- this is Amazon Rapids played through Alexa devices

Amazon Announces Rapids - A Playful Approach to Reading for Today’s Connected Kids

New App Features Fun, Engaging Short Stories Told in a Unique Chat Style

Amazon Rapids Offers Readers Ages 7-12 Hundreds of Illustrated, Original Stories with Dozens More Added Monthly

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2016-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced a new app that offers a playful approach to children’s reading. Amazon Rapids offers illustrated short stories written in a unique chat style that brings stories to life, one message at a time. Stories on Amazon Rapids are told through the lens of characters chatting with each other, from an alien texting about invading Earth to two chickens debating if they should cross the street. The app is available for iOS, Android and Amazon Fire devices, and offers hundreds of original stories, with dozens of new ones added monthly. Parents who sign up now can subscribe at a special introductory rate of $2.99 per month to give their kids unlimited access to short stories. Parents can start a free two week trial at http://rapids.amazon.com.

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Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction for kids, is now free

Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction that encourages kids to read by presenting stories in the form of text message conversations, is now going free. Previously, Amazon had been charging $2.99 per month for a subscription that allows unlimited access to its story collection, which now numbers in the hundreds.

First launched in November 2016, Amazon Rapids was meant to capitalize on kids’ interest in chat fiction apps like Hooked, Yarn, Tap and others, which tend to cater to a slightly older teenage crowd. Amazon Rapids, meanwhile, was the schoolager-appropriate version, without the swearing, alcohol, sex and yeah, even incest references you’ll find in the Hooked app, for example. (Yuck. Delete.)

Instead, Amazon Rapids’ stories are aimed at kids ages 5 to 12 and generally just silly and fun. They’re not meant to addict kids through the use of cliffhangers and timeouts, nor are they scary.

Amazon Rapids, a reading app offering hundreds of short stories for kids ages 5 – 12, is now free for all Amazon customers. Read short stories in the app, and listen to select radio-play adaptations in the free Amazon Storytime Alexa skill. Just say, “Alexa, read me a bedtime story”.

Amazon Rapids, a reading app offering hundreds of short stories for kids ages 5 – 12, is now free for all Amazon customers. Read short-stories in the app, and listen to them in the free Amazon Storytime Alexa skill. Just say, “Alexa, open Amazon Storytime”

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