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KU is a malicious anti-competitive subscription service. It makes Amazon better profits per person than real ebook sales and cheats authors & publishers. High usage readers are subsidised by those that don't read so much.
As Amazon as over 90% of the English Language ebook market worldwide the exclusivity clause for content providers should be illegal.
It's also marketed dishonestly, especially in Amazon search results.
Free on Kindle Unlimited (Big print)
xx to buy (small print).
Nothing is free on KU because you can't keep it and you pay a subscription. Irish Library ebooks are "freer" in that dishonest sense as there is no subscription fee.
The best reason to buy an eInk ereader is about 80,000 public domain ebooks, nearly 70,000 on gutenberg.org as they are really free and most can only be read on a screen.
Amazon doesn't even buy the content for KU, unlike Pay TV or physical libraries. They decide themselves how much to pay content provider, after the fact based on unreliable and invasive of privacy detection of pages read. They should have to buy as many copies as concurrently on loan and pay a "per borrow" royalty, just like physical libraries in Ireland & UK (though the royalty payment is too low there).
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