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Originally Posted by Quoth
KU is a streaming service and buying the books supports the Indies far better. All KU ebooks can be bought and that benefits Amazon less than a KU sub.
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The current KU page rate is fairly generous, and for indies will often work out better than the royalties for buying a book.
If, like me, you tend to buy books when they go on sale, then the difference is even greater. The murky area is that when I buy a book, I don't need to actually
read it for the author to benefit.
Also the KU payout is at Amazon's whim, so it's handing a lot of control to them.
As a reader, I find KU expensive, and I wonder if that's actually also part of the lock-in. If I'm on KU, I'm going to read KU books exclusively, or I'm not getting value for money. If it was cheaper it would be more disposable and I'd read outside its walled garden. If Netflix was 5 times more expensive, I sure wouldn't have other subscriptions running at the same time. (I mean, I wouldn't have Netflix very long or very often, but that's exactly where I am with KU.)