Since it started, I saw KU as of a kind of NetFlix. KU stands for Kindle Unlimited, but I really think they should call it Kindle Limited. Why? Because you can only borrow ten or read ten books a month! If there is no limited, they they should let you read as many books as you like. That would be like "All you can eat shrimp"
When you walk into a seafood restaurant, you order the 10.99 all you can eat shrimp special. Okay maybe not 10.99 but you know what I mean. They give you an endless plate of fried shrimp. And if I am right, they will give you more. But suppose you walk in, order the AYCE Shrimp and they serve you ten shrimps? You complain right? You say "Excuse me, but I can eat more than that!" and smile,
Now look at books. Maybe ten books is all you can read and that is fine with you. But suppose you finish reading ten books, and the month isn't over, and you head over to Amazon, find another book to read and there it is: Read For Free. "YES!" You click it and Amazon says, "Sorry you've reached your limit." What? But I paid 10 dollars and it is Unlimited right? I guess Amazon thinks Ten is an unlimited amount of books.
I found another problem with KU. I just found this out: You borrows ten books, but you haven't returned all of them. You read four of them but you still have six. You pay the 9.99 again to enroll and you start reading for free. Now I haven't experienced this yet but someone found out that Amazon won't let you borrow anymore books unless you return the ten. I have a lot of reading to do!
For the authors, Kindle unlimited could be a bad thing if they write novels. They get no royalties if the reader reads less than 10% of the book. If you wrote a 250 page book, then the reader has to read more than 25 pages. So they read ten pages, don't like the book, return it and you get nothing. However, if the author writes a short story or a novella, it could work.
The only good I see about Kindle Unlimited is that for anyone, 9.99 a month is a good price because some ebooks are more than $1.99 you could be saving money in the long run and if you just want to read it like a library book, that's great! The only ebooks that you can read for free are the ones that are enrolled in the Kindle Select Program (These books can't be sold anywhere else.)
