{"id":18082,"date":"2017-06-22T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2017-06-22T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:56:48","slug":"free-6-month-membership-equals-desperation-for-amazons-troubled-kindle-unlimited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18082","title":{"rendered":"Free 6-Month membership equals desperation for Amazon&#8217;s troubled Kindle Unlimited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/amazon-is-giving-away-a-free-6-month-subscription-to-kindle-unlimited\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> reports on another crevice opening up in Amazon&#8217;s crumbling &#8220;uneven playing field&#8221; (aka eBook subscription\/sales platform) with the soon-to-be whole-foods giant offering a <strong>FREE six-month\u00a0membership<\/strong> for <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> with the purchase of a new <strong>Kindle PaperWhite 3 eBook reader<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, reading between the lines: <strong>Kindle Unlimited&#8217;s &#8220;Subscription service for eBooks&#8221;<\/strong> is so popular that they have to give it away.<\/p>\n<p>Or are they just hoping to increase membership when people forget to &#8220;<strong>opt out<\/strong>&#8221; at the end of the FREE period? (Read the terms of service carefully.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader reports on another crevice opening up in Amazon&#8217;s crumbling &#8220;uneven playing field&#8221; (aka eBook subscription\/sales platform) with the soon-to-be whole-foods giant offering a FREE six-month\u00a0membership for Kindle Unlimited with the purchase of a new Kindle PaperWhite 3 eBook reader. So, reading between the lines: Kindle Unlimited&#8217;s &#8220;Subscription service for eBooks&#8221; is so popular that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18082\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,11,4,5,8,15,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18086,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions\/18086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}