Some excellent thoughts for indie writers worried about Kindle Unlimited. The industry is changing. The industry is unstable. Cultivating flexibility is still (and always) the wise call!
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https://jessmahler.com/breaking-free-of-kindle-unlimited/
@ianthealy There are so few good options in our transitional economy. What a wild time for so many talented creators.
@MLClark "Wild" is an interesting choice of words. My outlook is probably much more negative.
@ianthealy @MLClark yes. What I have noticed during the few times I've signed up for KU, most action happens during the free giveaway days...and then no one reads the books. Last time I did it? Three people opened the book. Only one read the book. 40-some downloads of the book, so....
@MLClark Really good piece, thanks for the link.
@MLClark I've never bought into the Kindle Unlimited model, simply because a.) I never have done well there, b.) the "pages read" model always seemed problematic to me, and c.) I didn't go into self publishing to put my eggs all into one basket. Even in the early days of selfpub there were examples of people running into problems with Amazon.
But...I was also selling jewelry online in the late '90s, and was aware of the one vendor issue with eBay. So...yeah.
@MLClark KU is and has always been a zero sum game. With a fixed amount of dollars to be distributed to KU authors every month, every sale to one author takes away potential income from another. Horrible.