One author's early results on KU:
http://noorosha.com/kindleunlimited/
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Ultimately, the boost in sales I’ve seen from putting 2 titles into KU has surpassed the total earnings for all my books on Nook, iTunes, and Kobo combined. That’s potentially a pretty powerful incentive to put my books back into the KDP Select program.
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On principle, I dislike the idea of being exclusive to Amazon (or anyone, for that matter), even if it’s only for 90 days. I want to give readers more opportunities to find me, and I’d love to have a following on non-Amazon sites to fall back on, should the ‘Zon decide to slash the amount they pay out in borrows. On the other hand, Amazon still accounts for 85% – 90% of my total revenue, so any boost I can get on that channel will inherently deliver greater results. I also don’t see Amazon cutting KU payments to authors any time soon – they do want to build market share in book streaming, after all. If things get bad, authors have the option to jump ship, so why would Amazon want to run the risk of losing all their content?
At the moment, this is all speculation. I’ve only had 4 days of numbers to play with, and the results have, so far, been promising – if not spectacular. So I’ll be keeping an eye on how my two KU books perform over the next few weeks and make a more informed decision when I’ve got more data.
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More, plus pretty charts at the source.