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Originally Posted by The Old Man
If I leave the WiFi off I understand the books will not be deleted from my PW2. Is that correct? In other words join, get ten books you want to read, cancel and turn off WiFi, read the books at your leisure (say in three months) and then rejoin and get 10 more books. Cost per book = $1.00.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I can see lots of people doing this - sign up for a month, read freely for 3+ weeks, download 10 books, turn WiFi off, then cancel service. Several months later, repeat the process. If one has a second Kindle, then all the better. That would free up the primary Kindle to be used with WiFi.
How Amazon would react to such a scenario is anyone's guess.
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Originally Posted by vxf
Unfortunately, this seems the weak point of Amazon's plan. Relying on people being honest is not a great business plan. You know some people will just sign up for the trial, mass-download, strip, cancel. I love what Amazon is doing here, so I really hope I am wrong... but...
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Also, the author won't receive their royalties if you download, strip, convert and read later. This is why I earlier thought Amazon would somehow try to prevent this.
Unfortunately, this is what I would have to do if I wanted to subscribe to KU.