Monday, January 12, 2015

First prominent indie authors turn their backs Kindle Unlimited – lesen.net

12/01/2015 John Main eBook News

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The launch of the Amazon eBook flatrate Kindle Unlimited led to many successful indie authors to plummeting sales, which were often inadequately captured by lending income. Meanwhile, pull the first known name of consequences and take their books from the Leihregal. A fatal development for Amazon, especially since there is little new is on the publishing side.



As Amazon’s eBook flat rate for the Frankfurt Book Fair brings to the grid three months ago, was in this country as in the US, especially full of indie titles at the checkout. While online retailers despite attractive offers could move only a few, mostly smaller publishers to participate, were from the start, hundreds of thousands Self publishers in the Kindle Unlimited Boot, including all the “big names”.



Popular genres Authors particularly affected

But just in known indie authors with high sales soon began to spread disillusionment. Thus, H. M. complained Ward, successful romance writer, already the end of November sales decline of 75 percent in sales, which stands opposite hardly Leiherlöse. Therefore Ward had their 60 publications in the meantime withdrawn from Kindle Unlimited, whereupon the total sales rebounded considerably.

In the 700 posts strong thread of HM Ward concurred many other indie authors in the observations, it appears to be a significant cannibalization of lending to pass through sales. This is not so surprising, results in a flat rate only just been put much money in indie title.

Gradually pull for frequent users sense, primarily in popular genres (romance, suspense) more indie Authors consequences. Thus the popular thriller writer JA Konrath has terminated his contract Kindle Unlimited, from the end of January, his Jack Daniel’s books, at least temporarily no longer be borrowed (discovered by The Digital Reader). This is of course true only for the US: In this country is YES Konrad – successfully – moved from Amazon itself, thus the title remain, of course, in Leihsortiment

first also in Germany tendencies

But even in. Germany there are the first signs of a shift away from Kindle Unlimited. Thus, the current number 3 of the Kindle charts, Love Wind Martina Gercke, not included in the 9.95-euro flat rate. And indie author Hannah Kaiser is indeed a “Kindle Unlimited All-Star”, their latest books (including cinnamon sugar) but are not part of the program

Still, the gaps in the KU range are manageable. Only 7 the current 40 best-selling books are not Renting, most of them publishing titles. If all continues to develop, the eBook flat rate is becoming increasingly unattractive for frequent reader. Especially since it is Amazon, at least in the last three months has been unable to acquire publishers in any numbers or quality

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The “first prominent indie authors turn their backs Kindle Unlimited” On January 12, 2015 (Monday) at 13: 00 Clock written by John Main. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is editor and publisher of lesen.net

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