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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
Okay, say you have a new novel and are about to publish it. And say that you put it up on Amazon's Select program for the first 90 days, then opt out of Select and publish it on Kindle standard, plus Smashwords, etc. Do you think there might be some exposure benefit in that, or does it still look like a loss? (Admittedly this overlooks the karmic cost of participating in Amazon's competition-crushing schemes.)
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I don't know how one opts out of the program or how it affects the stats of the book, but if it resets your numbers, reviews, or even Amazon-link, then that could be detrimental.
One assumes that Amazon has not implemented the technical details this way, but I really do not know. Three months is a long time to annoy customers and a short time to be discovered "cold" by new ones. I *highly* doubt you'll make a huge splash in the free/lending puddle in those 90 days in terms of getting new readers, but I can imagine you could easily lose a few B&N fanatics.
