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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'm not saying it's not true. There are no reliable statistics.
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I don't know. You were pretty quick to dismiss reports as outliers, but you seem to be the only person that knows about the vast swathe of authors that would make more money by going wide.
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Anyway, even if it would on average be true for all small publishers / writers (larger publishers do not have the exclusivity limit, funny that!) that would not make it right.
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I already said as much:
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I don't like Amazon's exclusivity. It's bad for readers and it is at the very least some aggressive arm-twisting for the authors forced to abide by it (I doubt any would chose exclusivity if it weren't tied to being in Kindle Unlimited).
But I do not think that Amazon is 'tricking' authors into signing up for it.
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For indie authors, KU is like a pair of golden handcuffs. The vast majority of authors (all that I've ever looked into and everything reported here from JBaby's friends and the indie publisher Cactus Chef spoke to) makes more money locked in Amazon's jail than they do selling everywhere.