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I don't believe for a second that there are lots of readers reading 100 full books a month. Romance or otherwise. I don't believe anything they say anymore. I am a big romance reader, among other genres, I know a lot of romance readers, real life and online. I have never met anyone that reads 100 full books a month. Not one.
I follow a lot of folks on goodreads and see their reading per year with the challenge. Those that read 300-400 books a year are a few and they are very heavy readers. Even those wouldn't be able to physically read 100 a month.
Anyone that reads more than 4 books a month is costing them money, considering the payout they have to do per book to the publisher.
Again, they just need to be honest about it up front and not continue to blame certain readers for taking them up on their service. Either its unlimited or its not. This punishing of readers and making them feel like garbage for it is disgusting. That is what really turned me off most of them. They treated their paying consumers like garbage. Just say what the number is each month you can't read over and be done with. If its 10 its 10, if its 20 its that. This secrecy so they can then throttle at will is belittling.
I don't even have any issues if they had a number. I said it back when I still had a subscription, before they yanked the romance. Just say you can read up to 20 full books a month. Not public domain stuff, regular normal published books. Or make it tiered. 10 books a month this much, 20 books a month this much. Or 30 a month for seriously heavy readers. None of this secret club crap.
I am sensing they are on their last leg. They lost a large chunk of their paying customer base back when.
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