dewman0283 When Kindle Unlimited only costs around $12/Mo for access to full books, you guys charging $25/Mo for similar access to periodicals is already approaching a ridiculous price but marginally acceptable so if you have some authors complaining
Exactly this. To me being charged around twice as much for similar content is pretty crazy. I understand everyone in the chain wants to get paid (author, TLers, editors, QI), but doing so at prohibitive costs is a big turn off as a consumer. The spirit stone approach is a deterrent to me as a reader. I want to read less and less content (and no new content) since it's such a risk. At least with the premium I looked forward to reading new books and recommend to friends.
Now with Elite gone I guess it's back to free books and just the two or so books I'll toss my remaining SS (that I already gifted half away expecting Elite to stay!!) at. Pretty disappointed.