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Originally Posted by avantman42
At the risk of being pedantic, to enroll in KU a book has to be in KDP Select, and books are put into KDP Select for 90 days at a time. So, if the indie decides that it was a very bad idea, they'll have to wait up to 3 months. That's not a huge amount of time, but it's not "at a moment's notice" either 
Otherwise I agree that there are enough differences between KU and Pandora/Spotify/etc that it won't necessarily be as bad a deal for authors as they are for musicians. I think we'll have to wait for a definite answer to that question. |
Oh, you can *tell* them to pull it at anytime... it may not get pulled for a while but it will come out.
And as for "90 days at a time" my understanding is "90 days *minimum*". If an author chooses they can stay 120 days or 95... Or a year. I thought being in Select is an ongoing thing...
But either way, as I said, they can minimize the harm if they don't feel the pay out is sufficient, unlike with music where the author has no power at all.
One of the many reasons Anazon is doing KU is they really don't like distributing free books and are looking to wean the market off permafree. So I doubt the KU payout will go much lower than fifty cents, which is the payout on $0.99 titles. It will likely go higher but unless they tier the payouts by title length (x cents per thousand words would be an interesting model) full indie novels might grow a tad scarce in KU.
Lots of ways the thing can go, both right and wrong...