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Probably because Amazon is known more for their books than their movie/TV show selection.

Also: Prime gives you access to the lending library, but you can only lend one book a month.

> Prime gives you access to the lending library

I'm a Prime subscriber and I didn't know about this. It seems the lending library has 350K-500K books, not dissimilar to Kindle Unlimited. And like other commenters, it looks like both unlimited and the kindle lending library has pretty small intersection with my reading habits.

I'll agree with both points. I tend to like non-fiction books more than anything. But I imagine both the lending library and Kindle Unlimited are trying to hit the greatest percentage of the population.

Lending library, though, only allows you to check out one book a month, and you have to have a physical Kindle device. The Kindle unlimited, it seems, allows you to use any kindle app, which is a nice change. I did just recently get a Paperwhite, so it doesn't affect me as greatly now.

...and that book can only be read on a Kindle-branded device. No iPad/Android Tablets.

Ah yes, good point. You can see I don't use the lending library that much :)

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