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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I've been arguing for a while that people are misreading KU and badly.
KU is not intended as a substitute for discrete sales. That would be stupid of Amazon. KU is intended as a substitute for free. Especially permafree.
I expect the second year to be worth watching.
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I'm not arguing your point at all--BUT, it isn't working because the authors are not really using it that way. Those authors who do well with free do much better by permafree in Amazon combined with other retail markets--because they get noticed everywhere. KU is a pretty poor substitute for that. KU gets advertised as a whole, but individual titles really don't get noticed enough to matter to an author. And yes, I agree, it was not meant as a sub for sale, but just like free, it can cut into sales.
There are different audiences for subscriptions and it can be separate from the buyer market and the "Freebie" market. From what I've seen those who have latched onto the "free" hard aren't about to get a subscription or start buying again.
Those who like free to sample an author's work (like me) are still occasional buyers--and KU does not help me there because I"m not paying 9 dollars to sample--I can use the regular sampling!
Yes, it will be interesting to see where it goes!