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Originally Posted by Blossom
Due to their new prime lending program incentive. Alot of books have been pulled from Smashwords for this program forcing you to buy from Amazon. I've also seen several authors jack up the price once they did that to.  |
The Prime Lending exclusivity window is for only 90 days. By itself it should be no big deal. The danger is that the extra Kindle sales and lending revenue strongly exceeds the Smashwords revenue and the publisher sees no reason to return.
Basically Amazon and the Select publishers are running an experiment to see if (and how much) lending out ebooks results in higher sales of the title (or other titles in the author's catalog). In other words, are ebook libraries a sales promoter (as Amazon thinks) or a drain on sales as the BPHs proclaim?
I suspect most of us would like to know and it looks like enough publishers want to know, too, that we'll have an answer by spring.
Check this analysis:
http://publishingperspectives.com/20...indie-authors/
And the comments; they range all over.