"Dear Amazon Customer,

We're updating the price of your Amazon Music Unlimited – Family plan so we can continue to bring you new content and features. Your price will increase from $169.00 to $208.95, plus applicable taxes, per billing cycle"

Between this and no true exclusive mode, you have priced AM out of the market. Spotify and Tidal will be my go to. My AM trial ends in March and I was enjoying it, but it was up against Tidal and a few other services. Prices are CDN

I should add AM - unlimited without Audiobooks is $177 CDN. A much better proposition for me.

I see from a search that this has been covered, but because I'm probably not the only one thinking about it, I thought I'd ask again to make certain: judging from the T&C, plus a couple of helpfiles, it looks like the Amazon Music Standard Family Plan is what had been Amazon Music Unlimited (Family) before they added the audiobook.

To be honest, I might be willing to consider sticking with Unlimited if any family member could get the audiobook, but the price difference is still a lot more than what those family members pay to checkout audiobooks from the public library: no cost or free. It would also not be worthwhile if it is limited to just me, (I'm fine with reading books, but I don't have the patience to listen to someone else read. They're too slow and dramatic.)

Hopefully, the Standard Family Plan is the same as what we have had for the past few years and I will not have to consider dropping back to an Indvidual plan and making the other family members listen through our Alexa devices or go back to the ad-supported Spotify subscriptions they were using before. Perhaps, even getting one for me.

Edit: Maybe nobody knows. I don't recall seeing the new "Standard" option previously and it appears to be describing what had been "Unlimited", so maybe it was introduced with the price increase and nobody has it. IDK