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Originally Posted by The Old Man
Like Netflix Amazon needs to have several plans. Different strokes for different folks. Harry accused me of "gaming the system" when I suggested I may cancel for a few months while I read the ten books and then sign up again for ten more. Why not offer a $4.99 / month plan for 5 books. Something like that might keep me signed up month after month.
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Because the goal of the service isn't local storage of books, just like the goal of Netflix or Spotify isn't to let you locally store a ton of video/music at any given time. The point of Amazon's limit is to make the service dependent on Amazon's servers. If you want to cycle through more than 10 books, just download another book and get rid of the one you've read the longest ago. Functionally the service is still the same (unless you have poor wi-fi, which means Kindle Unlimited was already functionally useless to you anyway).
Downloading 10 books and then cutting off the wi-fi misses the point of the service entirely. Maybe you'll be able to cackle madly while you read those ten books on a free trial (which I'm sure only applies once) but if you kept the service around, connected to the internet every so often and continually rotated books out as they drew your attention, you'd have the full access to Kindle Unlimited's entire library instead of just 10 books. What's the point of spending $10 to read 10 books when you could ready so much more than that? The difference between local storage and Amazon server storage is non-existent from the user's point of view.