Prime Reading vs Kindle Unlimited, Amazon

This short review is an attempt to compare Prime Reading vs Kindle Unlimited.

Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited are both popular subscription-based services from Amazon. Both services offer access for readers to a large selection of books and magazines at a low monthly fee.

These two Amazon subscription services, Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading are available via the internet. They are primarily offered to those who love books.

Both services allow you to read on any Kindle ebook reader and Amazon Fire or via Kindle app on smartphones and tablets.

Both services allow you to borrow up to 10 titles at a time. You can keep them as long as you wish since there is no due date for returning a book.

While both services are very similar to the purpose they serve and how customers use them, there are a few differences between them.

Prime Reading is one of the benefits included in the Amazon Prime membership, while Kindle Unlimited is a standalone subscription service separate from Amazon Prime. You can subscribe to Kindle Unlimited whether or not you are an Amazon Prime member. Members of the Amazon Prime program can also subscribe to the Kindle Unlimited.

Another difference is in the number of titles available for each service. Prime Reading offers access to more than a thousand titles in the library while Kindle Unlimited offers access to more than a million titles in a variety of genres, audiobooks, and magazines. Therefore, bookworms will prefer Kindle Unlimited to Prime Reading since its library offers much more books.

While the selection of ebooks included with Prime Reading subscription is limited and drastically smaller than the selection of ebooks included with Kindle Unlimited, it is not unchanging. The overall number of titles does not change but new books are added constantly each month while old ones are moved out of the selection.

People are now more driven towards digital reading technology. As a result of this trend, more readers now wish to use online stores and libraries as a source for downloading favorite e-books and audiobooks.

An e-book is a book presented in a format that allows you to read it on an electronic device like an ebook reader, computer, or handheld device. Many books that are available in printed format can be found as e-books. An ebook consists of electronic text and may have images, and hyperlinks.

On other hand, an audiobook is an audio file in electronic format. It is voice recordings of the text of a book that users listen to rather than read. An audiobook is usually narrated by a professional narrator or actor.

 Kindle Unlimited vs Prime Reading

You can try both services for free to find out the differences between Kindle Unlimited vs Prime Reading.  When you try both services, then you can figure out are they worth money for a subscription.

Both services offer a free 30-day trial. If you wish to test the service, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial for Amazon Prime and next month start a free trial for Kindle Unlimited.

Then you can make a comparison of both services and find out which one is a better option for you.

Currently, in 2024, the cost of Amazon Prime in Canada is $9.99 per month or $99 per year, while the price of Kindle Unlimited is $9.99 per month.

Post-secondary students enrolled in the two-year program and in the four-year program can subscribe to Amazon Prime at a more affordable price than the general public. Their discounted price is $4.99 per month or $49.00 per year. Also, post-secondary students can get six months of a free trial.