Hello friends,
Time for a good, old fashioned rant. I've complained in the past about Amazon's Kindle Select Program whereby readers pay $9.99 monthly for a membership which allows them to read as many Amazon-listed KU e-books as they wish. That's a great plan...for readers! For authors, not so much.
In Kindle Select, Amazon pays authors on a per-page basis, a program which is geared toward the customer, but leaves authors wondering why the heck they joined. Once you agree to join Kindle Select following the publication of a novel, you are locked into the program for a three-month period. Of course, some months are pretty good, as pages are read fairly regularly. At other times, things are more quiet. I should mention that whenever I list a novel with Kindle Select, actual Amazon book sales drop drastically, while per-page reading numbers go up.
It's in the quiet times that I usually decide to let my Kindle Select membership lapse and publish my
Time for a good, old fashioned rant. I've complained in the past about Amazon's Kindle Select Program whereby readers pay $9.99 monthly for a membership which allows them to read as many Amazon-listed KU e-books as they wish. That's a great plan...for readers! For authors, not so much.In Kindle Select, Amazon pays authors on a per-page basis, a program which is geared toward the customer, but leaves authors wondering why the heck they joined. Once you agree to join Kindle Select following the publication of a novel, you are locked into the program for a three-month period. Of course, some months are pretty good, as pages are read fairly regularly. At other times, things are more quiet. I should mention that whenever I list a novel with Kindle Select, actual Amazon book sales drop drastically, while per-page reading numbers go up.
It's in the quiet times that I usually decide to let my Kindle Select membership lapse and publish my
