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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
See and that's the thing for me. You (or readers in general) are MY customer. I understand Amazon wants exclusivity and why, but I don't see how it helps me. Okay, yes. They have lots of eyeballs. BUT what good does that do me long term?
90 days is 90 days. I have a book about to come out. I cannot IMAGINE having to tell Nook readers and Sony and so on that, "Well, sorry, most of my sales are on Amazon so you have to wait 90 days."
That doesn't seem smart because I'm the one who will take the heat, not Amazon. The Nook customer isn't going to write Amazon and complain, they are going to write to ME.
Now then. What if an author offered something small. Like only a short story for the 90 days on Amazon. Would that bother people as much? Or would it be seen as just as much of a problem.
I never liked exclusive deals, especially if there wasn't exact monetary gain spelled out. Some authors are getting much better deals by SIGNING with Amazon as the publisher. That, I get. This...not so much.
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Of course readers are going to complain to you. It is you who would have signed the exclusive deal. That exclusive deal leaves a lot of bad feelings for people who don't buy eBooks from Amazon. Sure I could buy from Amazon, strip the DRM, convert to ePub and read. But why would I want to? There's enough out there that I can get in ePub that I would not buy anything of yours ever again. Going exclusive with Amazon is a bad idea and anyone who does it is just looking for trouble.