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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Can I add to this statement?
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I certainly don't mind.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Amazon wants some indies but not all indies.
I know of one case and yes the author was given special options that when the author agreed to put some books in KU, both the author and Amazon took a bath on it. The borrows were there but the sales on all the author's books flatlined. The author only stayed in a month.
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Interesting story.
My take on KU has generally been that it shouldn't necessarily be a place for an author to put all their works all the time. (From a business point of view I tend to see it primarily as a replacement for permafree and $0.99 sales.)
Some authors probably can afford/benefit from "full-immersion" in KU but not everybody.
A more conservative approach might be to rotate titles in and out regularly the way movie studios do at Netflix and the way Disney managed their animated classics on DVD.
Sounds like this one author had an... interesting... customer base. Good thing Amazon is responsive to issues like this and waived the 90 day commitment.