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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
I know the libraries have a lot of magazines and such available, I am not thinking that support will go anyway, thinking this is mainly aimed toward text book rentals since that's big business with schools
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Several magazine publishers (science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishers) have already confirmed that Amazon contacted them about this. The Kindle Subscription service will close in September 2023. They predict that this will be devastating to the short fiction field -- to publishers and writers. (Yes, I know many people don't care about genre magazines or short fiction. They can **** **.)
Some publishers were given the "option" of putting their magazines on Kindle Unlimited. Others were not even given that option.
Many of these magazines have subscription options available on their sites -- but not all do. Also, people like the convenience of subscribing through Amazon rather than having to email "doc" files to their Kindles. And because the subscriptions are handled through Amazon, the publishers don't have a way to contact the subscribers who use Kindle Subscription to tell them about those options.