Thread: Amazon offers indie authors reward for going exclusive
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Old 03-08-2012, 10:51 AM   #341
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
But it is you who is pulling the book, not B&N. I don't blame B&N. I blame you.

You see, if you had not gone with Amazon and were not thinking of maybe doing so again, you would have at least 3 or 4 sales just from putting it back out in ePub. But it is your choice to with your book as you want. I am not going to buy a book that may be pulled for sale only with Amazon. Now if you want to rethink this and tell us that you won't be pulling it, then sure, I can go ahead an buy, but not as things stand now.

Question, if someone was to buy your book in ePub as a gift for someone else and before that someone else got to downloading it, you pulled it for Amazon. Would you refund that person's money since that person did not get a chance to download it before it was made unavailable? Are you sure that when you pull your ePub edition to go to Amazon, that you are not in fact causing some people to not get a copy that was paid for?
Well, I mean, THIS. Yes.

I backup my books, but not necessarily the day I buy them. I've been buying 1-indie-a-day all week, but I'm in the middle of moving to a new house and I've not backed them up. If those authors decide to pull out tomorrow and go to Amazon, I'm out money and I'm not going to blame B&N. You can consider me wrong to do so, but I'm a customer and it doesn't work that way. No matter how wrong you may think me, I'm still not buying from that author again. That's not good brand-growing.

And here on Mobile Reads, I think it's a little disingenuous that we say out of the left side of our mouth most readers aren't tech-savvy enough to backup their stuff and out of the right side of our mouth if you don't backup your stuff, it's your own fault when I yank my book. It's one or the other, in my opinion. I think at least 50% of readers can't backup their material for whatever reason. If someone thinks it's okay to steal from them because B&N is respecting your distribution rights, well, I hope you didn't need those readers' money down the road, because that's all you're getting from them.
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