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Originally Posted by Quoth
Heavy readers get some advantage from KU, but the real winner is Amazon. Authors are better using regular KDP and regular Kindle sales and then not exclusive, for free being everywhere else.
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I think that it does play out for many indie writers. I know that being on KU can get a book noticed and read, where before it wouldn't have sold at a 99 cents. Because they weren't selling at all, and the authors didn't want them to go free.
I bypass a lot of books for cheap, and when I got KU tried them out then. Wasn't going to pay for a book that threw up a lot of red flags. Which is why I put them on my KU list, and when I did join KU I had a list to start with.
I burned through a lot I was *glad* I didn't buy. They wouldn't even have been worth getting for free.
I think a lot of indie authors have fantasies that they are a lot better authors than they really are, and don't want to give them away for free.They go for KU as a way to get more eyes, and for people to take a chance on their work, without having to actually give them away.
So, I do think a lot of them can come out ahead on KU, because it's the only attention they're going to get, and they actually might get some good reviews out of it, where they'd have been ignored otherwise.