For those who already own the ebook, Amazon will sell them the audiobook for £2.99 instead of the usual £14.99 or so without a subscription.Īmazon has also increased the number of customisation options available on the Oasis, including more type faces, a greater level of boldness gradation and font sizes and the ability to left-align text to better match the design of paper books. The service has 250,000 audiobooks available for download on an ad-hoc or subscription basis, but one proviso of the integration is that customers buy both the ebook and the audiobook of the same book. Photograph: AmazonĪmazon says that its Audible users downloaded 2bn hours worth of audiobooks in 2016 and on average listened to two hours of audiobooks per day. The Audible integration means Kindle Oasis users can listen to audiobooks via Bluetooth headphones or speakers. I can then roll through a couple of chapters in the audiobook on the commute, then take the device back home and flip back to ebook mode, and it knows exactly which location I left off to start reading again.” Saarnio said: “I’ll end at an ebook page at home, take my Kindle Oasis into the car, pair it via Bluetooth and then hit play and it picks up the audiobook right where I left off in the ebook. The big new feature for the Oasis is the integration of Amazon’s Audible audiobook service, the first time for a Kindle device, which allows readers to seamlessly switch between audiobooks and ebooks, maintaining their position in the story if they own both formats of a particular book using the Whispersync for Voice service. The Kindle’s rivals, including Kobo, have had water resistant versions of their e-readers since 2014, but have failed to disrupt Amazon’s dominance of the ebook market. The Oasis is also now water resistant to IP8X standards, which means it will survive dunks in depths of up to 2m in water for up to 60 minutes, and has integrated Bluetooth connectivity for hooking up wireless headphones or speakers. The new Kindle Oasis improves on the luxury version of Amazon’s e-reader line from last year with the addition of an ambient light sensor to adjust the front light, which has an increased number of LEDs and is now more evenly spread. The new aluminium body of the 2017 Kindle Oasis tapers to just 3.4mm thick.
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