Thread: Has Amazon cracked the subscription puzzle?
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Old 12-14-2011, 08:34 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post

Another way to look at it is if you pay $79 a year , you get 12 books, plus some nice benefits. Now Amazon didn't really intend it to be an ebook subscription service, but its really caught on like wildfire among indie authors and from an original pool of just a few thousand books , there are 47,000 books in the pool, with thousands more being added every day.
That works out at $6.58 per book. How many indie writers are charging more than that for their books? I would suspect that most of those writers have only signed up so that they can list some of their work on Amazon for free as a form of promotion for their other books. That would be the only reason I would be interested, but even then I haven't really decided if that is worth what I would need to give up.
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