Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Amazon's latest perk for Prime members includes free e-books and magazines

Amazon Prime members already get free two-day shipping, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, Audible, and unlimited photo storage with Amazon Drive. Amazon is now adding another perk to the program called Prime Reading that lets customers read from a rotating list of over a thousand titles that feature best-selling books, current magazines, comics, and more.

Prime Reading will be available for free to all current Prime subscribers, and features best-selling Kindle titles including The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Man In the High Castle, The Millionaire Next Door, Half Way Home and When I'm Gone. Customers will also be able to access several magazines, including Bon Appétit, National Geographic Traveler, People, Sports Illustrated, HGTV, Popular Mechanics, Golf Digest, Runner's World, and more.

The service is available on the Kindle, Amazon's Fire tablet, as well as the free Kindle app on Android and iOS. Prime members also have access to the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, through which they can borrow one book every calendar from the Kindle catalog.

If you're already a Prime subscriber, you can now get started with Prime Reading. Not on Prime? Subscribe for $99 a year.