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Originally Posted by Josieb1
If a book is Kindle Unlimited, you have to buy it from Amazon.
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Not if it's a big publisher. It's only works published via "KDP Select" rather than KDP or big publisher's API (they don't use KDP) that are exclusive.
Also there are SP authors or small publishers not using KDP Select that don't bother publishing elsewhere. Sometimes even paper editions.
Over 90% of English Language ebook sales worldwide are Amazon. Part of this is content suppliers being conned into only publishing on Amazon.
I think I read than in USA about 80% of paper fiction sold online is from Amazon. They have also been buying up
publishers as well as other companies. They are a publisher and retailer and monopolist. Totally unregulated businesses is bad for the consumer, content creator and competition. You end up with a dystopian one corporation or organisation per thing (usually American), especially on the Internet.