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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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...
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I may not have worded it very well. As I recall, you sign up for 90 days, and if you don't take your book out of Select during the 90 days, it gets auto-enrolled for another 90 days. I don't think you could leave after 95 or 120 days, I think you'd have to wait until you'd been in for 180 days. I've only tried it once, though, so my memory of the details is a bit sketchy.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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I agree. I've seen some authors worrying that the sky is going to fall, but there are always some authors worrying. As you say, authors have a lot more control over this than musicians do with Spotify et al.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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I've seen others suggest tiered payments by length, but they've not done that with KOLL, so I wouldn't expect it to happen with KU. Of course, I've been wrong before ...