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Why are your fantastic books no longer available on Kindle Unlimited?

Timothy Ellis Short version:
The payout per page read dropped so low, the gap between the royalty on a sale, and the full read of the same book grew too large.
At the…moreShort version:
The payout per page read dropped so low, the gap between the royalty on a sale, and the full read of the same book grew too large.
At the same time, reads in Page Flip mode are no longer counted, and so the author is no longer paid for whole reads of books, and in fact whole series.
The whole thing came to a crunch point on Aug 1, when Amazon introduced what they call KUv3. The following day my income dropped 30%, and stayed there. It took a month to figure out why and see nothing was going to change. Amazon say there is no problem. There is. And this was the second 30% down adjustment Amazon made in just over 1 year.
I pulled out, since I do not view KU as being 'free books'. Its a subscription service, everyone pays for the use of it, and the author gets paid as well. But it no longer pays enough.

I seriously wish I could remain in, but selling books puts food on my table and pays the mortgage, and KU kept paying me less and less for more and more, cannibalizing sales, and paying me nothing for them.

All authors will face this decision at some stage. KU has been losing good authors for 2 years now. This will continue, unless Amazon fix what has become a seriously broken system.

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I just started reading these, and really enjoyed "Imagedit," but I get to the end of the book and find this poster that says "Recommended Reading Order..." Gah! It starts with "Yesterday's Mage" and so on. But when I get that on KU (love that all of yours are there, btw), its poster puts "Was That You" and puts "Yesterday's Mage" after "Leader of Sector Ten." Now I'm confused. Which poster is right?

Timothy Ellis The Imagedit series is my latest, so the poster is the most up date.
The early posters were series written order.
The current posters are in recommended…moreThe Imagedit series is my latest, so the poster is the most up date.
The early posters were series written order.
The current posters are in recommended reading order.
The Spacemage Chronicle trilogy was my third series, but is a prequel, set some 85 years odd earlier than The Hunter Legacy series. 'Was that you?' is also a prequel set earlier, but not a good place to start in the universe. A lot of people prefer to start with Spacemage than Legacy, which is why I changed the posters. (less)

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	Yesterday's Spacemage (The Spacemage Chronicle #1) 4.10 avg rating — 1,611 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero at Large (The Hunter Legacy, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 1,496 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunted Hero Hunting (The Hunter Legacy #2) 4.27 avg rating — 1,225 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Today's Spacemage (The Spacemage Chronicle #2) 4.17 avg rating — 1,252 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Send in the Hero (The Hunter Legacy, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 1,156 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hail the Hero (The Hunter Legacy, #5) 4.34 avg rating — 1,081 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make or Break the Hero (The Hunter Legacy, #4) 4.27 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hire a Hero (The Hunter Legacy, #7) 4.30 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero to the Rescue (The Hunter Legacy, #8) 4.35 avg rating — 896 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero at the Gates (The Hunter Legacy, #9) 4.33 avg rating — 834 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Timothy Ellis answered Kevin Lancaster's question: I just started reading these, and really enjoyed "Imagedit," but I get to the end of the book and find this poster that says "Recommended Reading Order..." Gah! It starts with "Yesterday's Mage" and so on. But when I get that on KU (love that all of yours are there, btw), its poster puts "Was That You" and puts "Yesterday's Mage" after "Leader of Sector Ten." Now I'm confused. Which poster is right? The Imagedit series is my latest, so the poster is the most up date. The early posters were series written order. The current posters are in recommended reading order. The Spacemage Chronicle trilogy was my third series, but is a prequel, set some 85 y See Full Answer
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Timothy Ellis answered Keith Earnshaw's question: I am interested in the AIs that "walked out" of being Fighter co-pilots and looked like they were moving into espionage. Are they on the sooner, rather than later, list of books to be written/published? At this time, there is only a note for a future book for them, and no real idea to follow yet. But yes, they are a loose thread. So sorry, but on the 'later' list for now.
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