You might not be interested in
going exclusive with Amazon, or you may decide to only enroll some of your books (since we're being paid around $ 1.30 - $ 1.40 for borrows right now, a number that may continue to drop, a lot of people are only putting their shorter / cheaper works in the program).
As you pointed out, even
going exclusive with Amazon requires only a 90 - day commitment.
This new updated 2nd edition now has more options for those on a tighter budget, teaches you how to get your book into print (and why that helps selling eBooks), tells you why you should start a mailing list immediately, and shares the pros and cons of
going exclusive with Amazon.
The problem is that you are
going exclusive with Amazon.
However, there are real dangers with
going exclusive with Amazon.
The numbers alone have authors questioning whether
going exclusive with Amazon is even worth it anymore?
So
going exclusive with Amazon will work but only for so long.
Since this edition of Author Earnings is coming out and suggesting that going exclusive might not be a good fiscal solution for all, there may be some nascent behavioral movement against
going exclusive with Amazon.
If you are an author who has written less than 3 books, I recommend
going exclusive with KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited.
Be wary of
going exclusive with one ebook seller.
The only thing I can add is that there hasn't been a huge surge of sales since India was added, so I don't see much point in
going exclusive with Select just to get 70 % of nothing.
There are certain incentives for
going exclusive with your work, and they vary from distributor to distributor.
This new updated 2nd edition now has more options for those on a tighter budget, teaches you how to get your book into print (and why that helps selling e-books), tells you why you should start a mailing list immediately, and shares the pros and cons of
going exclusive with Amazon.
Something has to be said for
going exclusive with Amazon, since the bulk of sales occur in that sales channel.
Generally, that's being driven by the advantages of being in the KDP Select program (watch this video on the KDP select program and
going exclusive with Amazon).
If you don't mind me asking, what about your situation makes it unfavorable to
go exclusive with Amazon?
Related questions are whether you want to
go exclusive with any of the sites and how you want to upload to them.
Generally, I don't like to
go exclusive with Amazon unless you have a really good reason.
That sentiment drives almost every aspect of compiling the report, but this particular edition takes it a step further in «guiding» self - published authors in their choice to
go exclusive with Amazon or not.
There's been a big debate among indies lately about whether or not to
go exclusive with Amazon.
So I never signed up to
go exclusive with Amazon because of that.
So, I find it hard to blame any self - publisher who decides to
go exclusive with Amazon.
Today some authors chose to
go exclusive with Amazon, while others distribute as widely as possible, through excellent distribution partners such as Smashwords or Draft2Digital.
As I speculated back in November last year, we may be seeing a move to Amazon offering a CreateSpace Select option where indies are encouraged to
go exclusive with their print through Amazon.
These bookstores are trying to force authors in the Netherlands to not
go exclusive with Kobo and they are willing to cancel all book orders to try and get their way.
It reminded me a little of the ill fated distribution model that was Heroes World, where Marvel bought a print comics distributor,
went exclusive with them, and it ended up helping drag the distributor and publisher down, leading to the current monopoly print distribution system with Diamond Comic Distributors.
She originally
went exclusive with KDP select with the intention of distributing to the rest of the markets after her 90 day term was up, but the program proved so successful for her she remained in Select.
If you were willing to sign up for KDP Select and
go exclusive with Amazon for a quarter, your book (or serialized story) would go into Kindle Unlimited, where you were paid for every borrow that was made, so long as the reader consumed 10 % of the ebook.
I can also say without reservation that most debuting authors should
go exclusive with Amazon until they gain traction and can afford to branch out.
Well, if
you go exclusive with Amazon, they have a programme called Kindle Unlimited where you are paid @ per pages read.
Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, talked about how authors who
go exclusive with Amazon become more dependent (rather than independent) of Amazon.
Amazon knew this was true for their top selling authors, and they hoped to show us how lucrative KU would be and entice us to use KU and
go exclusive with Amazon.
The designer and commentator Baldur Bjarnason writes in The Self - Publisher's Perspective on the eBook Market,» I find it hard to blame any self - publisher who decides to
go exclusive with Amazon.»
This greater visibility of the ebooks borrowed add up for all the authors who
go exclusive with Amazon.
I'd be a fool not to
go exclusive with Amazon, even though I'd like to have my books on other venues.
For example, there are many opinions out there about whether we should
go exclusive with Amazon or distribute «wide» (with multiple vendors).
What happens to our Apple iBooks links if we decided to
go exclusive with Amazon's KDP Select?
In the indie book world, the debate still rages over ebook distribution: should I go wide or
go exclusive with KU?
If you decide to
go exclusive with ACX, the royalties may be higher, but you sign over your book sales rights for a year, which is the duration of their exclusivity.
Clearly, they had to shelve their plans for some reasons and has
gone exclusive with Amazon India, much like most other Chinese brands these days.
We take a product and
go exclusive with a particular carrier.
Not exact matches
Armed
with a greater understanding of what's behind the apps that we all use on our smart phones, Buchanon
went on to successfully develop and launch two of them — Vite
Exclusive Events, a sort of Tinder for parties across the country, and New Money Bash, a Candy Crush-esque game that teaches financial literacy.
One, it will begin
going head - to - head
with the rapacious streaming behemoths eager to tie up
exclusive deals
with big talents — talents Dynamics has helped make famous.
If the pattern continues as it is right now where each of the services has a very unique
exclusive offering, it would make sense that you would
go to the one that provides you
with what you're looking for.
Once exotic,
exclusive «alternative» funds seem poised to
go mainstream, often available
with the click of a mouse.
We will
go on to create
exclusive high - quality original content
with the most promising artists on our app, which will allow us to further engage our users.
Where Google
went wrong was
with that maps decision: making turn - by - turn directions an Android -
exclusive differentiated Android as a platform, but to what end?
In total, Elliman has committed
exclusives on $ 7 billion worth of Manhattan product,
with another $ 3 billion «pending,» De Franca said, but many of the developers are
going to wait to bring that product to market.
He's disintermediating the studio industry by
going directly to the talent,» Malone said in an
exclusive interview
with CNBC's David Faber Thursday at the Liberty Media annual investor meeting.
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