Comments on: Amazon Expands Kindle Owners' Lending Library To Self-Published Authors http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/08/419-amazon-expands-kindle-owners-lending-library-to-self-published-authors/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Juliana http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/08/419-amazon-expands-kindle-owners-lending-library-to-self-published-authors/#comment-86581 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:22:48 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/08/419-amazon-expands-kindle-owners-lending-library-to-self-published-authors/#comment-86581 At the beginning you talked about this applying to self-published authors, but then later wrote about publishers also partaking in the KDP Select program. Well if it’s publishers, do they have to get the author’s approval? And what is the breakdown of the payment then? Because in contrast to authors working solo, publishers are going to want a cut of that percentage too.

And of course the more titles that are enrolled the smaller everyone’s piece of the pie is going to be, so if there’s also a publisher/author split that has to be made …

Well, I guess we’ll see whether people signup or not.

]]> By: Felicity Heaton http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/08/419-amazon-expands-kindle-owners-lending-library-to-self-published-authors/#comment-86580 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:13:18 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/08/419-amazon-expands-kindle-owners-lending-library-to-self-published-authors/#comment-86580 When they emailed me and consequently phoned me to discuss enrolling my books with them, I was a little sceptical about the program. Amazon wanted me to enrol my current books into the scheme, but I explained the difficulties of that, plus my reluctance to remove books from other online retailers in the run up to Christmas. I have enrolled a book with them but it’s one of my older titles that wasn’t available elsewhere, and I uploaded it especially for enrolling it in the library and therefore testing it out.

I think 90 days is an awfully long time to have books exclusively at Amazon. I told them that, as well as explaining the difficulties they’ll face as they launch the program. Speaking from personal experience, I tried to get barnes and noble to remove some of my books from their store when they were discounting them and causing me trouble with price matching on Amazon, and it was four months and several emails to Smashwords later and they still hadn’t removed the books.

I am interested to see how it pans out for them. They say that they’ll allow authors a two week grace period to remove books from every retailer, including their own site if they sell on it like I do. I’m not convinced two weeks is enough lead time with most publishers, especially if you’re dealing with them through Smashwords.

Still, I was pleased that they approached me and discussed the opportunity with me. It made me feel as though I was getting somewhere with my books.

:D

Felicity
Paranormal Romances with Passion
http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk

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