ClarkesworldDec 16, 2022
In an absolutely devastating announcement (right before the holidays) Amazon has informed us that they are ending their Kindle Subscription program in Sept. 2023 and trying to get magazines to switch to Kindle Unlimited. Asking for more details, but this is bad. Magazine subscriptions are guaranteed revenue from each subscriber. KU is not like that. It will effectively cancel thousands of subscriptions since there's no migration path.
Show threadClarkesworldDec 16, 2022
It's hard to even say how much we'd get from a single subscriber. This completely removes our ability to control our price if we want to be in the dominant ebook ecosystem.
I've scheduled an appointment to talk with Amazon later this afternoon. Have many questions. Fellow editors of mags on Amazon: feel free to DM/email me. We should be talking.
Show threadWiredfire 

@clarkesworld kindles are pretty great devices utterly hampered by a horribly controlling ecosystem they sit it.

I get why and how they became dominant, and also why Amazon would not embrace open standards, but it's still such a shame that the wider public haven't voted with their wallets and gone to other less restricted devices.

I bypass the issues for books at least with judicious use of a certain Calibre plugin, but that still needs a little technical understanding 😣

Dec 16, 2022 at 4:44pmWeb