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Originally Posted by dhdurgee
I might wind up with KU yet, but I intend to exhaust my other options first. I have heard that KU is not a good deal for writers and would thus prefer not to support Amazon in taking advantage of them.
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Good to hear that Overdrive is looking at implementing that feature.
KU was a decent deal for writers but mainly due to the proliferation of junk books and reader farms, the income for the average author has dropped quite a bit. Several authors I've heard from are looking at going wide, implementing their own book stores, Patreon, etc. in an attempt to be able to continue to afford to write.
I did read an item that mentioned Amazon is looking into the situation and may be doing some tweaking to the algorithms they use to remove "readers" that read a limited set of authors and are reading multiple books per day 7/365. Sadly, that item was edited to remove that comment. I wondered if someone was under an NDA or someone was talking out their butt. Either seemed possible.