{"id":18362,"date":"2017-10-26T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18362"},"modified":"2017-10-26T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:31:49","slug":"new-kindle-owners-forced-to-sign-up-for-kindle-unlimited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18362","title":{"rendered":"New Kindle Owners forced to sign up for Kindle Unlimited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amazon&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> program is in trouble if a post at <a href=\"https:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/electronic-readers\/amazon-is-forcing-new-users-to-signup-for-kindle-unlimited\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is any indication. It seems the e-Commerce giant is forcing people to sign up for a <strong>FREE 30-day trial<\/strong>\u00a0of the <b><i>self-described\u00a0<\/i><\/b>&#8220;Netflix for eBooks&#8221; when first activating their new <strong>eReaders,<\/strong> and\u00a0Kindle owners can only avoid the scam by rebooting the device before setup is complete.<\/p>\n<p>For the monthly fee, the <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> program offers very limited participation from legacy publishers and their bestseller lists, with most of the subscription-to-borrow titles coming from back lists and desperate self-published authors who are currently abandoning the sinking ship in droves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s\u00a0Kindle Unlimited program is in trouble if a post at GoodeReader\u00a0is any indication. It seems the e-Commerce giant is forcing people to sign up for a FREE 30-day trial\u00a0of the self-described\u00a0&#8220;Netflix for eBooks&#8221; when first activating their new eReaders, and\u00a0Kindle owners can only avoid the scam by rebooting the device before setup is complete. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18362\">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":[3,11,4,5,8,25,15,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362"}],"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=18362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18367,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions\/18367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}