Thursday, March 12, 2015

Why I Cancelled My Kindle Unlimited Subscription – Inside Higher Ed (blog)

Why I Cancelled My Kindle Unlimited Subscription – Inside Higher Ed (blog)

I just canceled my Kindle Unlimited $ 9.99 monthly subscription. Are you a Kindle Unlimited subscriber? Why or why not?

It would be impossible to overstate how excited I was When Amazon Kindle Unlimited Announced the program this past summer. 10 bucks a month to browse e-books seemed like a great deal. The fact That Amazon promised to include audiobooks, and audiobooks That synced up with the Kindle books, Kindle made even more appealing Unlimited.

The reality of the Kindle Unlimited ended up being wildly divergent from all the hype.

While Amazon promises 700,000 e-books (and thousands of audiobooks), almost none of These books were ones I actually want to read. The selection on Kindle Unlimited is shockingly bad. Amazon Seems to have been completely unable to persuade the authors or publishers that join the program.

The other problem with the Kindle Unlimited Is That It Is difficult to discover books That qualify. There is no easy way to see Which books in your Amazon or Audible Unlimited Wish Lists are by eligible. Amazon does nothing to match the books that I’ve Previously Purchased or have put in my Wish list with books available through Kindle Unlimited. There is no Kindle Unlimited recommendation engine.

What would of the payment had to have been to attract almost every author and publisher?

The opportunity to sample every Kindle and Audible book would be enormously appealing. I would happily pay $ 1 a day for unlimited digital access this book.

My guess Is That there are lots of other big readers out there who would also be willing to pay a buck a day for this service.

Why did not Amazon him after the hard core reading public with a high quality and higher priced service?

To illustrate just how bad the selection in the Kindle Unlimited is, I’ve copied the first screen of my Kindle Wish List. As far as I can tell, none of These books is in the Kindle Unlimited program. ( I’m also curious if the share any books on our Wish Lists ).

The Sellout: A Novel

 

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

 

H is for Hawk

 

Rust: The Longest War

 

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles is a Collect Your Data and Control Your World

 

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

 

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

 

 

The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang (Kindle Single)

 
 

 

Anticipating 2025:

 
 

 

 

Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

 
 

The People’s Platform: Taking Back the Power and Culture in the Digital Age

 

Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the scarcest Metals on Earth

 

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of the Battery to Save the World

 

The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future

 

Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Hosting Behind the Olympics and the World Cup

 

College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education

 

Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival

 

World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

 

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

 

The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone

 

Satin Island: A Novel

 

After Birth

 

We Are Pirates

 

The Italians

 

Citizens of the Green Room: Profiles in Courage and Self-Delusion

 

The Big Seven (Faux Mystery)

 

The Great Leader (Faux Mystery)

 

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

 

Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories

 

Hush Hush: A Tess Monaghan Novel

 

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

 

America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone is 1940

 

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

 

Funny Girl: A Novel

 

Big Little Lies

 

 

This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

 
 

Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education

 

Transforming Students

 

The Magician’s Lie: A Novel

 

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

 

Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities

 

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

 

On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

 

The forgers

 

redeployment

 

 

Imagining the University (New Studies in Critical Realism and Education)

 
 

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

 

Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse (Coming Collapse)

 

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

 

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in the Digital Capitalism

 

Building Organizational Capacity

 

Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author

 

College and University Budgeting: An Introduction for Faculty and Academic Administrators

 

The Organization of Higher Education: Managing Colleges for a New Era

 

A History of American Higher Education

 

American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

 

Organization and Administration in Higher Education

 

Organizational Theory in Higher Education (Core Concepts in Higher Education)

 

How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change

 

The King of Sports: Football’s Impact on America

 

 

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

 
 

 

The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding a World War II

 
 

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

 

How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

 

Do or Die: Reluctant Heroes

 

The American Mission

 

The Distance: A Thriller

 

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike Book 2)

 

The Fever: A Novel

 

The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT

 

Lightning Rods

 

Thrown

 

Teaching Machines (Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology)

 

Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change

 

Leadership Without Easy Answers

 

How Great Leaders Think: The Art of reframing

 

The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

 

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

 

Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
 

Paying for the Party

 

The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

 

Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love

 

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

 

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)

 

Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures

 

The Setup: A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV

 

How The World Was Won: The Americanizatio n of Everywhere

 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

 

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

 

 

Faster, Higher, Stronger:

 
 

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose (Voices That Matter)

 

Revival: A Novel

 

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon

 

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

 

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

 

Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States

 

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey

 

 

The Fear Project:

 
 

The Intercept (Jeremy Fisk Novels Book 1)

 

Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined

 

The Next Best Thing: A Novel

 

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

 

Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession

 

Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness

 

Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

 

Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning

 

Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity

 

Why Teach ?: In Defense of a Real Education

 

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

 

Beautiful Ruins

 

The Newlyweds

 

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Erro r for Business, Politics, and Society

 

My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds

 

The Coming Jobs War

 

By Blood: A Novel

 

Fooling Houdini: Magicians, mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind

 

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

 

Darwin: Portrait of a Genius

 

The Leading Indicators

 

Dead Stars: A Novel

 

Ministers of Fire: A Novel

 

Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store

 

Concierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off — and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen

 

Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt

 

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

 

The Good Son: The Life of Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini

 

The Expats: A Novel

 

Models. Behaving. Badly .: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

 

Who’s in Charge ?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain

 

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

 

Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives

 

Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul

 

Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States

 

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

 

The Assumptions Economists Make

 

The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

 

The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective

 

Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding – An d How We Can Improve the World Even More

 

Fifteen Digits

 

And When She Was Good

 

Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West

 

Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

 

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

 

Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World

 

Townie: A Memoir

 

Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel

 

Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World

 

County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital

 

Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It (Discovering America)

 

My Hollywood (Vintage Contemporaries)

 

Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity

 

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

 

Panicology: Two Statisticians Explain What’s Worth Worrying About (and What’s Not) in the 21st Century

 

Cleopatra: A Life

 

Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and skulduggery

 

Wrong: Why experts * keep failing us – and how to know not to trust When them * Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, … consultants, health Officials and more

 

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent ?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

 

Poorer Richard’s America: What Would Ben Say?
 

The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It

 

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900

 

Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product

 

The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream

 

Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone

 

Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $ 2 a Day

 

Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

 

Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City’s Majestic Ruins

 

The M-Factor: How the Millennial Generation Is Rocking the Workplace

 

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It evolves

 

Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools

 

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

 

Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

 

The Killer (Victor the Assassin Book 1)

 

The Gun

 

Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places

 

Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get

 

The Future of Management

 

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

 

Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do

 

Power Trip

 

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

 

Hartsburg, USA: A Novel

 

The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World. . . Via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes

 

The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You

 

The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

 

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

 

The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

 

Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter’s Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars

 

Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go is a Grad School

 

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

 

Death with Interruptions

 

Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

 

Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town

 

Stuff

 

The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

 

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