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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Note that Amazon is promoting KU as a discovery tool to readers and a marketting tool to authors. An author putting all their books (even in one series, when they have more than one) in KU is not a given. Certainly not in these early days of subscriptions when nobody knows how the economics of it are going to shake down.
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It isn't a given that an author will put all the books in a series in there -- or leave them in there. I have never put more than one book in the Kindle select program at a time. And there are already readers on one of the forums I'm on complaining that an entire series isn't on there so they have to spend the 9 dollars for the monthly charge and then buy books 3 and 4.
Plus authors go in and out of the program all the time. So you may or may not be able to "reborrow" a book. Even on SCRIBD where there are larger publishers and more of them participating, they are making only certain books available to the program and there is no guarantee they will leave those books in the program. It makes more sense for a publisher or author to cycle books for visibility and to test different audiences.
That said, I think these programs are probably having an initial effect on sales of books for these past couple of months. It could just be me...but I think several people are at least trying out a free month of KU and that means they are going to focus on reading books in the program.