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.
Scrith@clarkesworld Wait, what is kindle subscription? I think my GF might be subscribed to that, but I’m not sure
@Scrith Does Amazon charge them and then send a copy of Clarkesworld to their Kindle each month? If so, then they are probably subscribed. (There are other ways to get it to.)
@clarkesworld Clarkesworld? No, I don’t think so, that doesn’t sound familiar to me. I think she pays a monthly fee and then gets access to a large selection of ebooks from Amazon, but with the caveat that she has to “rent out” the books, and so can only have like 5 rented out at any one time, and has to “return” them before getting more.