FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 73monthly fee of $9.99
after a free 30-day trial,
you get access to a
whopping one-million-
plus eBook, audio
book, and magazine
titles. You don’t own
any of the books, but
you can borrow as
many as you want and
enjoy them for as long
as you want— hence,
“unlimited.”
Take that one
million number with a grain of salt, as it’s
beefed up by a lot of public domain titles
(many of which are already free to download
from Amazon and elsewhere [go.pcworld.
com/frdw]), self-published books, and
selections from independent publishers.
There are some books from major publishing
houses HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster,
including those by best-selling authors
Sandra Brown and Jodi Picoult, but titles
from Penguin Random House, Hachette, and
Macmillan still aren’t available through
Kindle Unlimited.
The beloved Harry Potter and Hunger
Games series are here, though, as is
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale,
and a host of books by popular thriller author
Dean Koontz. But these seem to be the
exception rather than the rule, and popular
titles and authors take a considerable
amount of poking around to uncover.HOW DOES KINDLE
UNLIMITED WORK?
Using Kindle Unlimited is much like
downloading and reading any Kindle book
you purchase. You find a title, click on the
orange Read For Free button, and select the
destination from your registered devices.
There are a few ways to find Kindle
Unlimited titles. You can search the Kindle
Store, but the search results will return
purchase-only books as well as Kindle
Unlimited offers. To be sure the book you’re
looking for is available through Kindle
Unlimited, look for the logo and zeroed-out
price next to it.
You can also go to the Kindle Unlimited
page (go.pcworld.com/amkn), which will
immediately display “new and notable” titlesKindle Unlimited recommends new and popular titles as well as those based
on your shopping history.