Kindle Unlimited – a good thing for authors?

KU (Kindle Unlimited) is an Amazon subscription service which allows readers to download up to 20 books at a time for about £10/$10 per month. Amazon encourages authors to put our books into KU, and when we do, we get paid a small amount for every page read.

Many authors angst about going into KU for two reasons. Mainly it’s about the exclusivity. If an eBook is in Kindle Unlimited, it can’t be on any other platform, such as Kobo, Apple, B&N. Having your eBook on other platforms is refer...