I came across a banner advertising a Kindle Unlimited deal at Amazon where you can get 3 months for $0.99, but I have no idea how long it’s valid for or what the stipulations are since I already have an active KU membership so Amazon won’t show me the offer.
To see if your account qualifies for the deal, head over to the main Kindle Unlimited page at Amazon and it will show if the 3 months for $1 offer is redeemable.
These types of deals aren’t available for accounts that already have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, but they usually work if your plan ended awhile ago or if you’ve never subscribed before.
Amazon used to offer these types of deals all the time, but then they stopped doing them for a while. Now this year they’ve started to doing them again. They had a similar deal for Prime Day, except that was 3 months for free, but it required a Prime membership to get the deal. This time a Prime membership isn’t required.
Unfortunately Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited Gift deals are no longer as good as they used to be. In years past you could get up to 40% off KU subscriptions by paying in advance, and they work with active subscriptions, but now Amazon only takes about $1 off per month, even when buying 2 years at once.
I don’t know how long this current offer is valid for so it might expire after Cyber Monday, but who knows, maybe it’ll run a little longer.
Amazon still has most of the Kindle lineup on sale as part of their Cyber Monday Deals, and when you buy a new Kindle you have the option to get 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for free. If you take advantage of this offer before claiming that deal you can stack the two, but it doesn’t work the other way around if you already claimed the 3 months for free.
If you redeem this Kindle Unlimited deal, keep in mind that Amazon will automatically start charging the regular price of $11.99 per month after the 3 months ends, but you can cancel at anytime before then to avoid the charge. Even if you cancel early you still get access to Kindle Unlimited for the full 3 months.
My last Kindle Unlimited subscription ended last summer, but I still wasn’t able to get this deal. Maybe next time.
I discontinued KU right after they disabled downloading KU by USB. It’s offered to me today.
Terms and Conditions are here: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=19256757011
In case I was unclear, when I wrote “It’s offered to me today” I meant “the 3 months for $0.99 deal is offered to me today.”
And now that I’ve actually *read* the Deal Terms & Conditions, I see this line:
• Current and past Kindle Unlimited members are not eligible.
So even though it’s offering me the deal, it would be invalid if I tried to use it?
Whatever. I don’t really want KU anyway.
My last KU ended mid August, but I cannot get the 3/$.99 deal. They have really been stingy with it over the past year or more. I never thought it was worth $9.99/mo, so I’m certainly not paying $11.99. Happy reading to those who can get it, And I appreciate you staying on top of the offers for us, Nathan.