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Old 04-15-2012, 12:44 PM   #14
koland
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I know about KDP select and how you have to keep it there for 90-days. But that doesn't do any good for the people who don't use Kindle format eBooks, don't convert Kindle format eBooks and basically need it to be in ePub from day 1.

When the 90-days is up, does the book go back to your store and stay there without going back to KDP select? There are lots of people who still might not buy it because of thinking it could be pulled at any time to go back to KDP select.
Even most Kindle only customers do format shifting (if only PDF->Kindle). It's not as though you don't have a copy of Calibre and can't download it from Amazon and read it on your reader (you just don't want to, because of an irrational worship of the EPUB format).

In any case - almost every place is waking up to the reality that they must continue to allow downloads from your library, even if a book is removed by the publisher. There's no reason to think that the publisher themselves won't do the same.

If you won't buy any book for fear it will end up in the KDP Select program (or the similarly restrictive, but less lucrative/desirable version over at B&N), then you will end up only purchasing from the Big 6 Agency publishers and any other large enough to force Amazon to deal with them direct, rather than thru the KDP side of their store.
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