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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Just curious. I believe you never specifically said so, but are you getting your money's worth from KU? (If you are subscribed that is, which I believe you have not revealed as well)
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I'm not in KU right now.
I simply don't have the eyeball hours to justify the reads on top of the BAEN bundles, Kindle First, and occasional freebies. (Say 5-6 a month, all Indie.) Plus Fallout4, where I've dabbled in mods to see how it works. And life. Life gets in the way.
My time use has changed a lot since 2010. I'm not even watching SyFy.
2010 is when I decided I wasn't going to buy any more BPH titles and ended up buying no tradpub besides BAEN. I let SFBC and the other book clubs lapse and I've bought exactly one pbook since: a history of publishing up to the mid 90's. Couldn't get the ebook so I got a near pristine copy used for $5.
If I were back to reading 3-4 books a week like my mother still is I'd be all over KU. If I didn't have the other sources, I would jump at it. I did consider it for her but she's still covered.
I *am* devoting a bit of time to tracking KU because it is an interesting experiment. I never would've expected any subscription service to survive but KU has found a contrarian way to not only survive but thrive. It intentionally violates all conventional wisdom yet it keeps on growing. And growing. It's a weird beast.
And now it's spawned a junior version which is interesting in its own right. The implications behind PR are pretty telling, if you stop to think about.
(Hint:look at the PR catalog. Try to pick out bad covers, bad blurbs, bad reviews... It's a showcase of non-tradpub quality.)
Sneaky, huh?