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Old 11-19-2022, 06:34 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
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.
Tough to say with a sample size of one?

The flip side is that the author got paid something from leebase and leebase probably wouldn't have paid to read the books if they weren't in KU?

Sounds like a win for the small authors: people enroll for the "big authors" and stay for the small ones?
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