[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

Kindle Unlimited is bad. Fuels the Amazon monopoly.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

The imaginary one?

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

No, the real one. Amazon has a 100% monopoly on KU.

Originally Posted by cfrizz

LOL, Yup!

But no one is forced to join KU if they don't want to, so it's just BS.

If you are a very heavy reader, you can have endless amounts to read on KU for just a few bucks a month. If I didn't have an endless TBR pile I would join KU.

Originally Posted by MGlitch

Which doesn’t change that Amazon has a monopoly over KU.

Of course amazon also has a monopoly on Kindle ereaders. Because you know they make them or in the case of KU run it.

Which doesn't change that that's not exactly true. One doesn't refer to any company's exclusive programs or products as a "monopoly." To do so is a perverse stretch of the definition. Besides, the original poster I replied to wasn't referring to KU as the monopoly. They clearly said that KU fuels Amazon's monopoly. So I doubt very highly that they were suggesting that KU fuels KU's monopoly. Or even that KU fuels Amazon's KU monopoly. That would be silly. So no, they were clearly suggesting that Amazon itself is a monopoly which the KU program helps fuel (not to mention that @FrustratedReader has already made their "Amazon is a monopoly" claim clearly and quite often). Which is, of course, completely imaginary by any recognized definition of monopoly.

I'm often amazed at how MR members can take the simple unambiguous words that are right in front of their eyes and twist them into something silly and unsupportable.