Why pay for e-books individually when you can take out a subscription and read as many titles as you want? E-book subscription sites have been around for a while, and they used to be just a haven for independent authors’ work, but things have changed in 2025. You can find bestselling authors, good books by authors you know and trust. Serious readers are finding it increasingly viable to pay a monthly fee and read to their hearts’ content. These are the best e-book subscription sites for 2025.
Kindle Unlimited
Amazon Kindle Unlimited is by far the most popular subscription service in the world. They constantly have promotions, where it’s free to sign up for a couple of months. They offer audiobooks, e-books, magazines, graphic novels, and comics. You can access your library through the Kindle app, which is available on various devices, including Kindle e-readers, phones, tablets, and computers. When you have an active subscription it is possible to borrow up to 20 titles at a time.
Kobo Plus
Kobo Plus has 1.3 million+ + e-books and about 100,000 audiobooks. The service plan allows you to read, listen to, and explore as many books as you want for a particular price. It features books of various categories, including genres such as biography and memoir, comics, business, finance, fiction and non-fiction, mystery, suspense, romance, fantasy, and many more.
Kobo Plus is currently accessible only in limited locations, including the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, and Australia. Kobo Plus enables reading e-books and listening to audiobooks through the Kobo Books app on iOS or Android devices, or a Kobo e-reader. A 30-day free trial is offered to test the service’s selection.
Kobo is unique in this field because they have different plans and prices. If a user only wants to read digital books, this is the most affordable plan. For those who prefer to listen to audiobooks, a standalone plan is also available. There is also an unfunded plan that offers access to both, but it comes at a higher cost.
Kobo Plus lacks magazines in its subscription plans. They are rather more dedicated to e-books and audiobook-related content. Kindle Unlimited, on the other hand, offers access to everything, including news and magazines.
Everand
Scribd has announced that it is pivoting away from the unlimited subscription model and moving to a credit-based system for their Everand reading platform in the United States. International expansion is slated for early 2025. This change will provide users with access to bestselling titles featured on The New York Times bestseller list, and the Big 5 Publishers will simultaneously release new content on Everand, as they do on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Rakuten Kobo.
There will only be two tiers in the future from Everand: a Standard plan, priced at $11.99 monthly, for one premium title, and a Plus plan, priced at $16.99 monthly, for three titles. Both plans maintain unlimited access to magazines, podcasts, sheet music, and a small catalogue of e-books and audiobooks, including Everand Originals. The bestseller titles from prominent authors can only be read if you subscribe to one of the new plans. Unlocked titles are yours to read or listen to as many times as you’d like for the duration of your subscription.
Overdrive Libby
Libby is a free app that allows you to enjoy e-books, digital audiobooks, and magazines from your public library. You can stream titles with Wi-Fi or mobile data, or download them for offline use and read anytime, anywhere. All you need to get started is a library card.
They have an app for Android and iOS. Kobo e-readers have built-in support for Libby/Overdrive, so users can register for a card, enter it, and browse/checkout and read, right on the e-reader, without the need for an internet browser. The Libby app gives you the option to send your ebooks to your preferred Kindle device.
Epic!
If you have a little one that you want to foster a love of reading, this is the largest platform dedicated to kids aged 12 and under. Epic offers an interesting mix of content, including more than 40,000 e-books. There are some classics, a few entries from popular series, and books from big publishers like HarperCollins and Macmillan, including many educational books.
From a superhero’s lair to a dragon’s cozy cave to unexplored dimensions of the multiverse, there’s no limit to where Epic Originals will take you! With these fun, engaging stories, your child will never be far from their next exciting reading adventure.
Storytel
Storytel is one of the best online book subscription services, praised for its audiobook selection. Originating from Sweden, Storytel has expanded its reach globally, providing subscribers with a vast library of audiobooks and e-books. They expanded into the US with their acquisition of audiobooks.com.
With features like offline listening and reading, personalized recommendations, and the ability to switch seamlessly between reading the ebook version and listening to the audiobook, Storytel is one of the best book subscription apps. Its unique feature allows family members to have their profiles under a single subscription, enhancing the user experience for all household members. The service is compatible with multiple platforms, ensuring accessibility at home or on the go. They currently have over 800,000 audiobook and e-book titles in their super vast catalog.
Blinkist
Almost none of us have the time to read everything we’d like to read. Yet we lose countless hours to activities that bring us little joy such as commuting, chores and staring at our phones. What if we could turn these little blocks of unallocated time into precious and rewarding moments for learning and reflection? Founded in 2012 by four friends, Blinkist now connects 37-million readers worldwide to the biggest ideas from bestselling nonfiction via 15-minute audio and text. So far we’ve Blinked more than 7,500 books, covering everything from psychology and management to philosophy and mindfulness, with new titles added every day
24 Symbols
24symbols is a digital reading subscription service. In exchange for a small monthly fee, you can download and read on any device (a smartphone, a tablet, an e-reader with a web browser or a computer) the books you want from a catalog of more than 500,000 titles, in several languages.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.