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Originally Posted by Atunah
You say that the big 5 get paid their regular rate, but they aren't participating in the program. There are some smaller publishers in it like Open road and some Sourcebooks I believe, but no Penguin, Harpercollins, random, S&S.
If they could get a couple of the big 5, this would be fantastic. They can do like they do on Scribd. Not having the newest books in the program, but back list titles. That would be fine with me.
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Well, let's see, how about the ads on
the front page of KU?
- Life of Pi -- published by Knopf Canada, a subsidiary of Random House (ebook seems to be done by HMH)
- Harry Potter -- published by Pottermore, which is fairly big on its own
- The Hunger Games trilogy -- published by Scholastic. Not one of the Big 5, but still pretty big. A major publisher.
- The Lord of the Rings -- published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid - published by Abrams Books, which is part of Hachette Book Group USA (not sure of the precise connections)
- The Princess Bride -- published by another subsidiary of HMH
All (and more) are published by so-called "real" publishers, big ones, and I am pretty sure they receive full sale price from KU & KOLL. Only KDP gets limited to the joint pool.
I shouldn't have said "Big 5".
Hachette seems to be cheating, though, depending on what this connection with HBG USA is...