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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
BUT for self-published authors they MUST be exclusive to Amazon in order to "qualify" to be in the program. That's the kicker for me. I don't want to be exclusive so no deal. I'm in SCRIBD and on other retailer sites and I'm not willing to give that up.
I doubt Amazon would try to negotiate exclusivity with a major publisher, but major publishers are not interested in driving yet more traffic to Amazon. They are feeling the pinch of Amazon's control already and would like to diversify as much as possible--thus they are on SCRIBD, a competitor and are starting to sell books from their own sites.
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Hasn't Amazon always offered very significant incentives to self-pubs to be exclusive to Amazon, regardless of KU? Isn't it really in your financial interest to go exclusive with Amazon? How much of your sales are with Amazon and with other retailers? Oops, lots of questions. Obviously I don't expect you to reveal your personal sales data, so the questions are somewhat rhetorical. But I am interested why you don't go Zon-exclusive.
Do you choose not to go exclusive because you make more money that way, or is there another reason?