ClarkesworldIn 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.
Timo Grün@clarkesworld I’m ashamed to admit I wasn’t even aware you existed until this post. I just bought the current issue on Apple iBooks. I notice you’re on multiple platforms: Would it be possible to write to your current subscribers every month with a subscriber one-off purchase price? That would be kind of roundabout, but might bring in more than KU (which I intentionally do not use).
@khoji You mean offer subscriptions elsewhere? We do. Patreon and ClarkesworldCitizens.com offer direct monthly subscriptions and are viable alternatives for Amazon. We can only sell single issues on Apple... because Apple.
@clarkesworld Do you at least have a mailing list of all your Kindle subscribers, or does Amazon handle that like Apple?
@khoji We don't have access to the contact information for our subscribers there. There was a report that would allow me to see some, but, conveniently, I don't see that anymore.
@clarkesworld That is incredibly frustrating, combined with the shift to KU. 😕
Christina Hsu@clarkesworld @khoji What about Apple News Plus?
@Aloudnoise @khoji I looked into that when it launched and there was some reason we didn't do it. Probably price related.