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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Another fun thing: Kindle Unlimited forces the authors into exclusivity with Kindle... It's really some anticompetitive shit.
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Yeah. I don't like the 'have to become Amazon exclusive' clause.
Now that Kobo has a competing service, maybe Amazon could limit KU books from being on another 'streaming' service, but otherwise not care where the books are sold.
Before folks come on with their 'the authors have a choice, take it or leave it', I'm not trying to start an argument. I just don't think there's any harm in allowing small authors to go wide as far as selling the book, while allowing those books to be in their streaming KU program. As the first post shows, KU reads are different than book sales. Having the first few books in KU didn't convince leebase to buy the ones that weren't.