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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So why not stay at Fictionwise and also go to Amazon? That way you won't piss off existing customers and may get new ones.
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Are you under the impression that Fictionwise was taking care of all their subscribed customers free of charge? They obviously couldn't afford that anymore. The object here was to save money... while at the same time putting their magazine in front of as many sets of eyes as they possibly could. It's perfectly clear to me that if they
could have done it cheaper with Fictionwise (or Fictionwise
and Amazon), they
would have. Contrary to popular belief, companies don't volunteer to piss of a large portion of their customer base on a lark. Something made more sense from a business standpoint to do what they did. Live to fight another day.
Plus, who knows... maybe market research showed that the clear majority of their subscribers were reading their magazine on Kindles anyway.
EDIT: and why are we all assuming that they left Fictionwise? Maybe Fictionwise dumped them... or made it "no longer feasible to stay".