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Old 04-27-2018, 12:56 PM   #108
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
1- Your local library pays out a lot more (tax dollars) per book read than any ebook subscription service can afford to pay out. Just ask oyster.

2-The absence of BPH titles from Kindle Unlimited is a feature, not a bug: Kindle unlimited exists to help promote Indie authors, not to cannibalize sales of established tradpub authors.
No argument about ebook costs to libraries but I beg to differ about #2. Amazon is no friend of Indie authors. They switched from paying authors a flat fee per book downloaded to six tenth of a cent per page read scheme which nets them considerably less money.

I'm also not impressed by the selection on Kindle Unlimited. Most of the titles are trashy romance/fantasy that I have no interest in. There's plenty of those kinds of stories on Wattpad and Smashwords. Good luck finding any non-fiction or Pulitzer/Nobel titles on KU. OTOH, library content is limited to high quality stuff which is worth the annoying holds sometimes.
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