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Old 05-23-2019, 11:59 AM   #144
ZodWallop
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But you raise a good side point …….. Hands up everyone here who actually has an active KU subscription?
I'm NOT a subscriber, because in general, I agree with your opinion:

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Of course it’s in Amazons interest for you to take ages finding good books and I even venture the temerity to suggest that it may be akin to the intermittent payoff, similar to slot machines.

All the while debiting your account for as long as you remain subscribed, Amazon are also harvesting the data of what subjects and how interested you are in particular titles. I’m already getting targeted full price emails from Amazon based on my downloads so far. And any purchases in that time are pure “value added” profit for them.
I'm just realistic enough to know that that is my problem, not theirs.
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