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Change always upsets a few people who can't adapt to it. Amazon had no choice but to copy Scribd and Oyster or lose their most active readers. They don't pay much, but they still pay more than the pirate sites they are trying to replace. And like the pirate sites, it takes a bit more lateral thinking to make the most from them. Short stories, adverts for longer (non-free) books at the front, copyright and other filler material at the front.
Either way, it's here now so people will have to learn how to work around it. Pulling your books out of it won't replace all those lost sales. Nobody who's paying for a subscription is going to pay extra for books that aren't part of that subscription, they'll just choose something else to read instead.
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