If you're wondering why Krista's books are only available on Amazon, it's because she participates in
their exclusive author program.
Not exact matches
Authoring organization (s):
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on
exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.
«Scientific evidence on the impacts of early childhood education has progressed well beyond
exclusive reliance on the evaluations of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian
programs,» says Yoshikawa, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor in NYU Steinhardt's Department of Applied Psychology and lead
author of the brief.
Authors who've enrolled their books in Amazon's
exclusive program KDP Select might have noticed a new feature in their dashboards, tucked in among the various clickable topics.
AMS was one of the special perks that
authors got for listing their books in the
exclusive KDP Select
program.
With the announcement that all KDP Select titles would be included in the all - you - can - eat service,
authors were initially excited about the prospect of a new revenue channel from the
exclusive program; it didn't take long, though, before some of the top names in self - publishing noticed a significant drop in their KDP - based income.
Author's Boutique ™ offers an
exclusive program for books that meet the highest level of criteria.
And a lot of that is due to KDP Select, the
program that lets
authors make their titles
exclusive to Kindle, and which offers a $ 6 million annual fund to pay them based on the total number of qualified borrows.
But apparently this hasn't stopped
authors and publishers from adding their eBooks to the 90 day
exclusive program.
In the most interesting news about the launch, the Unlimited catalog — which features 600,000 ebooks and 2,000 audiobooks — automatically includes self - published works that
authors have listed in Amazon's
exclusive program, KDP Select.
It required us to go
exclusive, and it was a lending
program just like this... My hope is the
program is going to make the careers of hundreds of
authors no one has ever heard of.»
For
authors, another downside: self - published
authors can only participate in the
program if they make their books
exclusive to Amazon.
This
program allows an
author to have one or more of their books in this
program provided they give KDP Select an
exclusive distribution for 90 days.
From the perspective of
authors who benefit from Goodread's discovery, these
authors will probably see increased integration with KDP, and possibly increased incentives to enroll their books in KDP Select, Amazon's
exclusive program.
Amazon revealed that self - published ebook titles enrolled in its
exclusive KDP Select
program would share a portion of the $ 600,000 total for March sales, and sales are faring well enough that April will also have an additional cumulative $ 600,000 for
authors.
That means an
author can still offer his ebook on Amazon at his own terms and under his own name, as well as take full advantage of Amazon's
exclusive KDP Select
program and its benefits, while still offering his print edition through the other networks.
If Nook Press had developed a viable print - on - demand option and then told
authors there was even a possibility of seeing their titles in their local bookstore on the condition that they pulled their books from Amazon's
exclusive KDP Select
program,
authors would have jumped at the chance.
Only Amazon would ask for all of their
authors to give up the ability to sell books on other platforms for the chance to be in this
exclusive system, especially when a book borrowed by someone on the KU
program actually pays less money (sometimes by a lot) than an actual sale.
In a Thursday morning Digital Book World panel, bestselling self - published
author Hugh Howey addressed why he moved from Amazon's
exclusive program — KDP Select — to distribution across multiple platforms, even though it meant reduced revenues from his Amazon sales.
Authors who have opted to enroll their titles in the
exclusive program and fans who buy up those titles seem to be... [Read more...]
When you as the eBook
author enrolls in the
program, you make your book become
exclusive to Amazon, meaning it should not be available anywhere else in digital format.
KDP Select is the Amazon / Kindle
exclusive 90 - day
program wherein
authors have the ability to promote their ebooks by making them free on Amazon for up to 5 days within the 90 - day period.
For
authors, the
program was contentious, because it required making those titles
exclusive with Amazon.
Sorry, but maybe Mr. Coker hasn't heard of Apple's iBooks
Author program which is very
exclusive.
In order to enroll an eBook in this
program, and
author must give Amazon the
exclusive right to distribute that book (the
author can renew or opt out after 90 days).
A select few
authors have been allowed in the Kindle Unlimited
program without exclusivity but most of us have to choose, enroll in select and have our books become Amazon
exclusives or opt out.
The bulk of the ebooks on Kindle Unlimited are by self - published
authors who have agreed to make those ebooks
exclusive to Amazon for the period that they're included in the
program.
Keeping in mind the fact that anybody publishing through Amazon's KDP
program, or even Barnes & Noble's slightly less popular PubIt, will already be available to iOS users, the only real motivation for Apple here would be to draw
authors into an
exclusive arrangement in some way to enhance the iBooks selection.
As with all NOOK devices, you also have access to the «More In Store»
program that provides
exclusive free content such as essays and
author interviews when you connect to a B&N Wi - Fi network, and you can read any eBook for up to an hour each day when you visit your local store.
Since Amazon didn't allow
authors to price books for free outside of its
exclusive KDP Select
program, few
authors considered the strategy behind free books until the discovery of permafree.