Thread: Indies on Amazon Kindle Only
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Old 01-20-2019, 08:30 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Apparition B5 View Post
Why do so many independent authors choose to lock their eBooks into the Amazon Kindle ecosystem?

With Amazon recently further locking down Amazon Kindle eBooks, I've been looking into other eBook stores. Many of the eBooks I've read are independently published and either solely available on Amazon Kindle, or only available on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books. Nothing on Google Play Books, Kobo, or independent eBook shops. It makes it difficult to avoid Amazon Kindle or leave the Amazon Kindle ecosystem should you choose to do so, which if I had to guess is the point. But isn't that leaving money on the table for the authors?
I haven't participated in Author discussions for a while, but from what I remember, it's very hard to get into google books as an Indie. I'm not sure about Kobo, but from what I remember, many of the indie authors I interacted with were getting most of their sales from Amazon, and since Amazon offers extra perks if an author is exclusive to them, they chose to go exclusive. (any authors, feel free to jump in and correct me...as I said, it's been a while since I actively participated in author discussions, so things could be much different)

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