On a lark, I popped the free trial on Kindle Unlimited to check out some of the membership-included “books” (I put ‘book’ in quotes because none of these are of sufficient length to qualify as anything other than short stories).
I wasn’t expecting too much from these, but good lord these authors have nothing on any of the authors who post their stories on this or other free story sites.
Of course a few authors who post here have published their longer works as proper books on Amazon, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. Now that I’ve checked through a bunch of these, I’m pretty sure that anyone who has written something worth publishing has done so as a proper book or e-book that you actually have to buy, not as part of Kindle Unlimited.