And where the Amazon alternative limits you to borrowing only up to 10 titles at a time, there's no such restriction on Kobo Plus.
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Unlike Kindle Unlimited, which cycles through selections of its one million titles, every single ebook on the Kobo Plus platform is available to you to download. While that really is very limited as compared to Kindle Unlimited, which has over a million ebooks (and some audiobooks of some of those titles), Kobo Plus has one major advantage over its rival. In Australia, for example, where we reviewed the service, there were no more 600,000 titles available at launch, but that does seem to be improving slowly but steadily. The Kobo Plus ebook library is going to vary from country to country. Limited catalogue of ebooks and audiobooks.(Image credit: TechRadar) Kobo Plus library If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you can also do so via the Booktopia app.
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In comparison, Scribd might be better value if you don't own an ereader of any kind, giving you plenty of ebooks, audiobooks, recipes, sheet music and so much more for $9.99 / £10.99 / AU$14.99.Īll Kobo Plus plans come with a 30-day trial and you can sign up for the service via the Kobo website, app or an ereader. Considering you're getting both ebooks and audiobooks together in the US, UK and Canada, it easily beats out having to get both a Kindle Unlimited and Audible subscription to satisfy your need for good stories. While the individual Read and Listen plans are priced competitively, particularly in the US (with Kindle Unlimited costing $9.99 / £7.99 / AU$13.99), we think it's the full-fat Kobo Plus that's cost effective when compared to other subscriptions. The audiobook-only option – not called Listen in the ANZ markets – will set you back AU$12.99 / NZ$13.99 and there is now way to opt in for a plan that offers both reading and listening. In Australia and New Zealand, Kobo Plus remains primarily an ebook-only subscription platform that will set you back AU$13.99 / NZ$14.99 a month. These three tiers are only available in the US, UK and Canada for a monthly price of
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With this expansion, Kobo has divided its subscription service into three different tiers: Kobo Plus Read for just ebooks, Kobo Plus Listen if you want only audiobooks and the full Kobo Plus platform that gets you access to both. As of April 2023, it's now expanded to the US and the UK. It launched first in Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal in 2020, then arrived in Australia and New Zealand in 2021.
Where Kindle Unlimited has far more reach, Kobo Plus is only available in a few regions. Three subscription tiers in some regions.
(Image credit: TechRadar) Kobo Plus: price and availability
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