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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I like your thinking but not all indies are in KU.
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I know all indies aren't in KU.
Nor do the ones in KU have everything in KU. They really *shouldn't*.
But KU contains 900,000 titles.
Versus, maybe, 400,000 non-exclusive indie titles.
As revenue dries up in non-Kindle channels the economics of exclusivity are going to change.
(Think of the PS2 era of console gaming: Sony's share of the market was so big it simply made no economic sense for many developers to spend money chasing incremental sales on Nintendo or XBOX.)
And, consider what it does to the credibility of a non Kindle bookstore if authors start rotating their titles through KU every 90 days, which means they'll be taking them in and out of their stores. For series titles, KU works best with the first in the series. Which leaves the competitor stores trying to sell "headless" series.
The whole subscription model is too new to tell how big KU can get or what the second or third order effects will be like. But the synergies are already making waves. There is no reason not to expect them to grow.