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Originally Posted by Quoth
KU / KDP Select Operation and suggested changes:
Amazon gets terms that no library gets.
(A) They get their "library" books free (other libraries buy at price set by publisher and in some countries pay a per loan royalty.).
(B) Amazon decides on a pot to share out to authors/publishers on KU and pays per page read (requiring abuse of privacy and WiFi/Mobile).
(C) They also demand smaller publishers or authors on KDP be exclusive for KDP Select (KU to customer). This only benefits Amazon. Both authors and consumers would benefit from non-exclusive.
(D) They also sign up authors outside of KDP and publish ebooks and paper via their own publishing company. They won't supply these to libraries because libraries compete (often free) with Kindle Unlimited subscription loans. The ebooks on KU via KDP Select also are never in libraries, only bigger publishers.
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RE: The Amazon overcentralization pipeline seems quite strong. Not new information for many of those here I'd imagine but hearing the numbers was surprising for me.
Vertical integration is a hell of a drug.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gld-uHAIRlE&t=419s