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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I certainly don't mind. 
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. |
She didn't have a ninety day commitment. Like I said she got special privileges to even try it.
My take on KU is do what is best for your business.
Now as to the replacement statement, not all readers subscribe to KU. Matter of fact, I think the latest estimate is 10% of ebook readers subscribe to KU.
I don't because that is $120 a year. With the exception of the voracious readers, I don't know many people that spend that much on books a year.
My other reason is one week I might have hours to read and other weeks I might not.
KU was Amazon's answer to those readers that wanted a subscription on their ereaders so they didn't have to read on a tablet or a computer.
I am glad to see that changing the payout has brought more good authors in.
I know Atunah has subscribed and I know she is very picky about her reading.