SHOULD THE INDIE WRITER JOIN KINDLE UNLIMITED PROGRAMME ON AMAZON?

Enrolling in Kindle KDP Select and granting Amazon KDPS ebook exclusivity is always a difficult decision.

 

There has been a lot of debate recently about Amazon’s new feature, Kindle Unlimited, which is offered to authors who chose to enrol in KDP Select.

As a long time self-publisher, I have to say from the outset that it is not a good idea at all. However, for some authors, it might be.
Let me start by going all the way back to the very beginning of KDP Select. When it was first introduced, I was into it immediately. Why? Because it gave an author a chance to be discovered.
Back then, when you offered your ebook for free during the five days each three months, these giveaways counted towards sales, and in doing so increased a book’s sales ranking and exposure.
That was enough for me in those early days to give my exclusivity to Amazon, and I made a lot of sales from the increase in my ebooks’ rankings.

KDP Select benefits decline

In hindsight, though it was a monumental mistake.
Not long after the introduction of this great promotional tool, Amazon reduced an ebook’s sales ranking ratio from a give away to 50%, and then shortly after to 10%.
This meant having to give away ten times as many e-books to achieve the corresponding increase in sales ranking.
Then finally, a giveaway became worth 0% as this feature was killed off.
In the meantime, though, the ebooks I had removed from Smashwords, and in doing that, from Apple, B&N and many other online retailers, had lost all their rankings and it took two years for them to recover after I got out of KDP Select and re-published back on Smashwords.

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