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Man Who Stares at Books
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Kindle Unlimited Price Hike
Announced in an email this morning:
Dear Customer, Thank you for being a Kindle Unlimited member. We are writing to let you know that the price of a monthly Kindle Unlimited membership increased from $9.99 to $11.99 on May 11, 2023. The new price will apply to you after June 18, 2023, on the date of your next monthly renewal. Since the launch of Kindle Unlimited in 2014, we have grown our eBook catalog from 600,000 titles to over 4 million titles today, introduced digital magazine subscriptions, and improved selection quality across genres. Kindle Unlimited members have unparalleled access to read as much as they want from a rich catalog of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines and comics. We continue to invest in making Kindle Unlimited even more valuable for members. Until July 31, 2023, you have the option to lock in your current price ($9.99/month) by purchasing upfront 6 months or 12 months of Kindle Unlimited. The lock-in price will take effect on the next billing date after the offer is purchased. Decisions, decisions. It was already difficult choosing enough books on the service to read each month. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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That's a lot of money for books that overall aren't very good and tend to be cheap to purchase. I thought that about $9.99 also, but going over $10 crosses a psychological barrier. You could join a couple of out-of-state OverDrive libraries and still have money left over.
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Grand Sorcerer
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Poor Amazon....We should help them out...Perhaps a drive to raise $100 billion for 2023...Join me, please.
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Grand Sorcerer
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Those who want to continue using Kindle Unlimited may be interested in giving themselves a gift subscription to KU. That provides a significant saving with the drawback of having to pre-pay.
The best deal is 24 months for $172.66 which works out to $7.19 per month. |
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Kindle Unlimited member
I received the same email message this morning
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o saeclum infacetum
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Connoisseur
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I hope they continue the Prime Day gift subscription. Otherwise, I would be paying almost twice as much per month.
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I'll be paying for 12 months before the price hike hits my membership. I've been going through 3-5 KU books per week when I'm working on sewing projects. Between KU and the library, I've always got something to read/listen to via speak screen.
Most of the books are not great literature, but that's ok for my casual reads. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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the rook, bossing Never.
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About $144 per year. I might or might not buy that amount from Amazon in a year. I'd want to read about two or three "free" KU ebooks a week to justify that. Likely cost more here.
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o saeclum infacetum
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I wasn't knocking the quality -- well, ok, I was -- but there's nothing wrong with that. As you note, it can work. I did two complimentary KU memberships because there are a lot of self-pubbed books (and not a lot of trad-pubbed) in a genre I like. The reality was that my reading satisfaction overall went down significantly, even though I DNFed the worst of them. Just the same, I was glad to have read the books; still, my gut reaction is that $144/year is a lot of money for not-very-good books even in quantity. Your point, however, about making use of Alexa to read KU books is excellent and could tip the balance.
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Gentleman and scholar
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Grand Sorcerer
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And, of course, we all know that this increase in the subscription price will be passed on to the authors.
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For me, $9.99 per month was too much given my slow reading speed. I acknowledge Amazon's efforts here, but unfortunately $11.99 is still too much. I'll wait until they hit at least $15.99 per month before I reconsider.
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