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Originally Posted by crich70
More likely he's just making a series of stories or novella's for sale just on Amazon.
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No. He's not dealing with the website or KDP.
He's dealing with the AmazonPublishing tradpub operation in Michigan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Publishing
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In May 2009, Amazon launched AmazonEncore, the inaugural flagship general imprint.[2][3] It publishes titles that have gone out-of-print or self-published books with sales potential. The first book published under this imprint was Cayla Kluver's Legacy in August 2009.[2] Other early books published by AmazonEncore include Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese, Shaken by J.A. Konrath, The Grove by John Rector and A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion.[4]
AmazonCrossing was announced in May 2010,[5][6] for translated works into English. The first translated books were the French-language novel The King of Kahel and the German-language novel The Hangman's Daughter which were released in November and December 2010, respectively.[5][7]
In May 2011, Amazon launched two genre-focused imprints, Montlake Romance, and Thomas & Mercer. Montlake Romance is an imprint for the romance genre; "Romance is one of our biggest and fastest growing categories, particularly among Kindle customers," said Jeff Belle, vice president of Amazon Publishing.[8] Thomas & Mercer is for mystery titles.[9]
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It's a more or less traditional publisher so Koontz' going to APubis no different than going to Baen...
...except APub is bigger and has deeper pockets.
Or Roberts going to the randy Penguin a couple years back.
Its a multi year commitment, not a trivial marketing move.
The news here isn't giving Koontz a multibook deal, it's giving *Koontz* a multibook deal. APub's wheelhouse has been newer authors, not long-established names, so moving upscale is somethig to take notice of.
Look at their catalog:
https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com
This is a smaller, growing business getting big enough to play with thd older, bigger players.
Considering that APub is estimated tobe about Hachette size, but more profitable, it is a head's up there might now be six BPHs, not five.
18 months ago:
https://www.idealog.com/blog/changin...wnhill-amazon/
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And Amazon Publishing further complicated publishers’ lives. While an early notion that it would compete immediately with big publishers for big books proved an illusion (at least partly because the brick-and-mortar incumbents weren’t interested in helping Amazon-owned titles), the proprietary publishing efforts worked great in the genres, particularly romance. As a result, each week now, a handful of those genre Amazon Publishing ebook titles are handily selling more units than most of the titles on the NYT and USA Today’s best seller lists.
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They are biggest in translations and big in the genres.
Lately, they've been expanding into litfic and children's books, thanks to the kingmaker power of FIRST READS alluded to above.
This power seems to be drawing the attention of at least some established names.
That is worth watching, given the boycott on their print books by B&N and the ABA crowd.