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Originally Posted by HarryT
They're giving you three months notice. Is that not sufficient?
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Not really "notice." That's a free trial that comes with "strings" because if you don't cancel, you're going to be charged. Not that I'm necessarily saying they must give me notice. They are allowing me continued access to what is there, so I am satisfied with that (you can download it, move it elsewhere or whatnot so far as I know).
I guess I expected them to charge for it at some point. I don't think their email was very clear about whether I was automatically signed up for the trial. I had to go check to make sure they hadn't just decided to enroll me. (They had not). I also had to test the "sendtokindle" feature that I use on my blog as part of sending posts or stories (I use this feature so that readers can get free stories now and then). I was concerned that a feature I was using would be gone and that would mean a lot of work--I have several posts/stories out there. If they were no long longer accessible, they'd have to be taken down or reworded.
It turns out (near as I can tell) the sendtokindle feature from blogs still works just fine without the cloud being a part of it. But because Amazon has many features/functions, it was not all that easy to tell which were affected by this change.
It's a minor bump in the road and took me fifteen minutes to check various things to see how it would impact me. I'm still not entirely clear on whether I will be able to email a book to a reviewer, but from what Nate said on his blog, I think I'll still be able to mail books to reviewers whether they have prime or not. I'll find out when the time comes if there are any issues with it.