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There are certain genres of which 90% of authors are publishing exclusively on Amazon, because all other authors in that genre are too and that's where the cust
by breakingcups 1y ago
There are certain genres of which 90% of authors are publishing exclusively on Amazon, because all other authors in that genre are too and that's where the customer base is. They all publish under Kindle Unlimited, which allows readers with a subscription to read unlimited books (of which authors get paid a certain % of that months total KU profit).
That phenomena isn't a coincidence, a large percentage of readers in this genre will have KU because almost the entire genre they love is on there. To sign up for KU requires authors to agree to an exclusive publishing agreement, meaning they can't publish their ebooks on other platforms. This means that the majority of that genre will never migrate to other platforms.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> That phenomen[on] isn't a coincidence, a large percentage of readers in this genre will have KU because almost the entire genre they love is on there. Note that this is, by definition, restricted to genres of the form "books so terrible that no one, not even the fan base, will pay for them".
- breakingcups 1y agoI'm not sure that's a fair characterization. Most of the readers in these genres read a lot of books, so for them it makes sense to go with an unlimited subscription. I'm sure they may have only bought and read half if the subscription wasn't an option, but they will still have paid a lot of money to satisfy their hobbies.