I just noticed that Amazon has lowered the prices of their Kindle Unlimited gift subscriptions for the 6 and 12-month terms.
The 6-month option has only decreased by a couple bucks, but the 12-month subscription has gone down by $23.48. The 24-month term is still priced the same as before at 40% off the standard monthly rate.
After Amazon raised the price of Kindle Unlimited last year, they also raised the prices of their Kindle Unlimited gift subscriptions.
Before the price hike, the 12-month option was priced at 33% off the regular monthly rate, but then after they raised the prices the 12-month option was only 17% off the regular rate, the same as the 6-month option. Now the 6-month plan is back to 20% off and the 12-month plan is 33% off like it was before the price increase.
If you pay for Kindle Unlimited month-to-month, Amazon charges $11.99 per month with their auto-charge setup, but with the gift subscription deals you can get Kindle Unlimited for as low as $7.20 per month when paying for 24 months up front.
Here’s how the new prices break down:
New Prices
6 months – $57.55 (20% off)
12 months – $96.40 (33% off)
24 months – $172.66 (40% off)
Below is a list of the old prices that I last posted about in December for comparison:
Old Prices
6 months – $59.94 (17% off)
12 months – $119.88 (17% off)
24 months – $172.66 (40% off)
As I’ve said before, these gift deals are always available but Amazon rarely advertises them and the page is hard to find if you don’t have it bookmarked.
As the name implies, these deals can be given as gifts, but some people send them to themselves to get KU at a discount, and unless Amazon has recently changed their terms, they can be tacked on to an existing membership as well.
For those that don’t know about Kindle Unlimited, it’s Amazon’s ebook subscription service that grants access to a library of over 3 million Kindle ebooks, thousands of Audible audiobooks, and a selection of comic books and magazines. You get unlimited access to all that content using a Kindle app, a Kindle ereader, or a Fire tablet, and then you lose access to it once you stop paying for the service, so it’s more like renting than owning.
With no way to back up KU borrows, the subscription lost 90% of its value.
You shouldn’t be backing them up anyway. You didn’t buy them. This is the book equivalent of a video streaming service. You can’t back the tv/movies from Netflix. This is no different.