Kobo has been selling eBooks and devices for reading eBooks for years. Now the company is dipping its toe into the subscription eBook space.

Kobo Plus is a new service that lets customers pay a monthly fee to access a library of 40,000 eBooks. It’s basically the company’s answer to Scribd and Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited.

There’s on key difference though: Kobo Plus is only available in two countries right now: Belgium and the Netherlands.

If you happen to be in one of those countries, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial. After that, the service, which is offered in partnership with Bol.com, will run you 10 Euros per month ($10.56).

Subscribers can read eBooks on a Kobo eReader or using a mobile app for Android or iOS phones or tablets.

There’s no word on whether Kobo has any plans to launch the service in the US or other markets anytime soon.

via The Digital Reader

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