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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Authors seem very willing to be in this "cheating" program. More new authors added all the time. Amazon isn't "cheating" me of privacy. No more than any other retailer.
I love KU. Between it and my local library, I never lack reading material.
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I’m not jumping on the cheating train, but I think a more telling statistic would be author retention rather than author acquisition. And more so author retention after those authors have tested to see the difference between exclusivity to Amazon and opting out.
If Quoth is any example exclusivity isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Though I’m not sure if they’ve tested going exclusive to see what it does to sales.
Of course exclusivity would have to have excessively better sales since any word of mouth sales would need to be in the Amazon ecosystem, while obviously without exclusivity the reader can use whatever device they want.
So perhaps cheat isn’t accurate, maybe disillusions the author would be better. Though other companies do this as well, it doesn’t make it a morally good* thing.
*companies aren’t bound to be morally good but we can still judge them based on their business practices.