Not a Fan of KU on a Good Day by S.C. Wynne
Good morning all!
I've seen a lot of gut wrenching posts on social media lately of authors who are in KU having their accounts closed by Amazon. That's a terrifying thought. It's just one more reason I don't care for KU.
If pirates upload your exclusive book to their site or to ibooks, you can lose control of your amazon account. Plus many of these authors Amazon is going after are having their royalties stripped from them, and Amazon won't tell them why. The most they tell the authors is there was suspicious activity on their accounts. How is that even legal? Usually when a company takes money from you they have to prove they have that legal right. Otherwise... isn't that stealing? Shouldn't Amazon have to have some sort of paper trail to show the author?
Now, I personally have never been a fan of KU as an author. I absolutely see the appeal for readers. It is a great deal for anyone who reads a lot of books. But as an author, having Amazon pay us LESS than half a cent per page just doesn't sit right with me. Writing is hard work. I'm not someone who uses ghost writers so every word has to come from my brain and out onto the page. It's exhausting. I love it, don't get me wrong, but if anyone ever tells you writing a book is easy, they're nuts.
Publishing with Amazon is a necessity. For most authors, they're the main source of our sales. I'm wide, but most of my sales come from Amazon. But using Amazon and being in KU are very different. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I was exclusive to Amazon. If I had to worry about click farms or pirates destroying my Amazon account I would have an ulcer.
I'm not condemning any other authors who feel KU is great for them. I'm just expressing my own personal preference. I think if you feel KU is your only way of feeding your family, go for it. You do what you need to do. I just personally don't have the stomach for KU.
I don't hate Amazon. In fact, I respect the huge platform they built for so many authors. It's wonderful that anyone who wants to can now publish their books. In the past if you didn't get picked up by a publisher, you had no real options. Now you do. Anyone can publish on Amazon. So for that, they get my kudos.
I guess the beauty of publishing is that we can handle our careers how we want. I don't like KU and so I won't use it very often, if at all. Others love KU and use it for all their books. To each their own, right? It's our careers and we get to choose how we do things.
S.C.
www.sc-wynne.com
I've seen a lot of gut wrenching posts on social media lately of authors who are in KU having their accounts closed by Amazon. That's a terrifying thought. It's just one more reason I don't care for KU.
If pirates upload your exclusive book to their site or to ibooks, you can lose control of your amazon account. Plus many of these authors Amazon is going after are having their royalties stripped from them, and Amazon won't tell them why. The most they tell the authors is there was suspicious activity on their accounts. How is that even legal? Usually when a company takes money from you they have to prove they have that legal right. Otherwise... isn't that stealing? Shouldn't Amazon have to have some sort of paper trail to show the author?
Now, I personally have never been a fan of KU as an author. I absolutely see the appeal for readers. It is a great deal for anyone who reads a lot of books. But as an author, having Amazon pay us LESS than half a cent per page just doesn't sit right with me. Writing is hard work. I'm not someone who uses ghost writers so every word has to come from my brain and out onto the page. It's exhausting. I love it, don't get me wrong, but if anyone ever tells you writing a book is easy, they're nuts.
Publishing with Amazon is a necessity. For most authors, they're the main source of our sales. I'm wide, but most of my sales come from Amazon. But using Amazon and being in KU are very different. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I was exclusive to Amazon. If I had to worry about click farms or pirates destroying my Amazon account I would have an ulcer.
I'm not condemning any other authors who feel KU is great for them. I'm just expressing my own personal preference. I think if you feel KU is your only way of feeding your family, go for it. You do what you need to do. I just personally don't have the stomach for KU.
I don't hate Amazon. In fact, I respect the huge platform they built for so many authors. It's wonderful that anyone who wants to can now publish their books. In the past if you didn't get picked up by a publisher, you had no real options. Now you do. Anyone can publish on Amazon. So for that, they get my kudos.
I guess the beauty of publishing is that we can handle our careers how we want. I don't like KU and so I won't use it very often, if at all. Others love KU and use it for all their books. To each their own, right? It's our careers and we get to choose how we do things.
S.C.
www.sc-wynne.com
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