Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Amazon Adds New Kids Content to Kindle Free Time - Investor's Business Daily

class=”company”> Amazon.com (AMZN) said Tuesday That it’s added more than 1,000 books, games, educational apps, movies and TV shows to Kindle Free Time Unlimited, the paidContent service for Kids That it Launched six months ago.

Kindle Free Time Unlimited is a subscriber-based optional extension to Kindle Free Time, a free feature for Kindle Fire tablet owners.

The new offerings include kids’ titles from The Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Time Warner’s (TWX) Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Electronic Arts (EA). Examples are Disney’s hit “Where’s My Mickey?”, Warner Bros. ‘ LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4; Dr.. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” from Ocean House Media, “Plants vs. Zombies” by EA; and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s “Curious George at the Zoo.”

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Amazon shares were up 1% in afternoon trading in the stock market today.

Customers can subscribe to Free Time Unlimited from within the Kindle Free Time app on Kindle Fire.

“… The vast Majority of our customers who take advantage of our one-month free trial of Free Time Unlimited choose to subscribe and enjoy our content library built just for kids,” Peter Larsen, a vice president at Amazon Kindle, said in the company’s press release.

Freetime Unlimited is available for Amazon Prime members for a monthly price of $ 2.99 per child or 6.99 USD per family. Customers who are not yet Prime members can subscribe to Free Unlimited Time for a monthly price of $ 4.99 per child or $ 9.99 per family.

Amazon’s Kindle Free Time service features parental controls and lets parents personalize theirchildren’s Kindle Fire user experience.

class=”company”> Related: Amazon Milestone: Author Sells 1 Million Copies.

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