If you want to know about the benefits of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service, you can simply go check it on Amazon’s website which never gets tired saying how magnificent the service is. But if you are one of those skeptics like me and want to know about its drawbacks, you have to read this book Kindle Unlimited: The Main Reasons Why You Should Never Sign Up To Kindle Unlimited. The irony is this: when I downloaded it, it was available on Kindle Unlimited.
Kindle Unlimited is expensive – probably more than you thought, and definitely more than what they tell you it is. First, let’s look at the titles available under Kindle Unlimited service. The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Misery by Stephen King, Watership Down by Richard Adams. No, you never come across those titles under Kindle Unlimited. Also, it is unlikely that Amazon will ever sell those books with reduced prices. The purpose of Kindle Unlimited is not to provide you those bestsellers. If it had been, they wouldn’t have fed you with junk literature. In India, you pay around 2,000 rupees per year for the service. Sometimes they give you a discount up to around 900 rupees. Now if you look examine carefully, most of the titles available under Kindle Unlimited are very cheap. How many such books can you read in a year? Just do the maths.
You may be thinking, they want to promote the upcoming authors. There you’re mistaken. Read John Spencer’s well-researched book, and you’ll know that in reality authors are being cheated of their well-deserved money through Kindle Unlimited. There are mechanisms – traps – in the scheme that pays authors based on the number of pages read, which is as low as 0.0046 cents per page. Also if you read less than 10 of that book, the author gets nothing. So Amazon is making money both ways – by feeding you the trash and by cheating authors of their hard earned cash.
According to Kindle Unlimited: The Main Reasons Why You Should Never Sign Up To Kindle Unlimited, people are getting more and more disappointed at this service. True, indeed. There is a limit you can allow yourself eating junks. If only you knew it did some good to the authors, you would probably subscribe out of kindness. But that’s not where the cash is going.
I have been a subscriber for two years, and you wouldn’t believe how I suffered. I agree to most of the things John Spencer said in his book. However, I’d like to emphasize the quality of books you get to Read for Free. Among hundreds of titles that I got in Kindle Unlimited for the last two years, I read only a handful of good books. I don’t regret being made a fool. What I truly regret is being made a fool twice.
This book will take not more than 30 minutes to finish. If you are considering renewing your Kindle Unlimited subscription, please, please, please spare half an hour and read this book before you take any decision.
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