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Originally Posted by pdurrant
John Scalzi made an interesting point about the Kindle Unlimited subscription model.
With KU, ebook sales are a zero sum game for authors - one author's success means less money for other authors, since authors aren't paid a fixed sum per read, but a proportion of a fixed monthly pot of money.
This sort-of makes sense, since Amazon has a fixed amount (per subscriber) coming in to pay authors with from the KU subscriptions. But is it a good deal for authors?
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In a sense, writing has always been a zero-sum game, in that many people will decide to buy a book, and the book they choose to buy is the "winner" compared to all the "losing" books they don't buy.