AMAZON's KDP SELECT PROGRAM

I'm not going to be a blogger that states statistics and mumbo jumbo that no one really cares about-when it comes to KDP Select I have only a few comments to make.  They are from my experience only, so take it with a grain of salt.  First I have no fault with the purpose of the program.  To offer authors the opportunity to promote their books.  For an "Indie" author like myself it enables me to get my book out to the public and it costs me nothing for marketing.  I have the ability to offer my book "free" for 5 days, which sounds "nonprofitable" but in reality it can be most profitable especially if an author has a series.  When I first entered the KDP program I chose to offer my book free for 5 straight days. Now that isn't always the case.  You can choose your days, but I decided to do it all in one shot.  I had a successful promo from what I learned later from other authors, but again I made no profit.  My hope was only to get my book and name out to the public and most importantly to have reviews from those who had the chance to read my book for free.  I will never know what it did -because I had no reviews from this whole process.  Prior to entering my book into Amazon's program I had uploaded it to Smashwords in which it was available to all different sites, including but not limited to Barnes and Noble.  At that time I did receive feedback, including how many people downloaded the preview.  This helped me determine if maybe there was an issue with the first part of the book-because as an author ANY feedback is good, and so I researched, joined blogs, forums, and did whatever I could to find out exactly what might be wrong that people were viewing the book but not buying.  Amazon didn't offer me this.  Instead I had people download it and offer me no response, no review, nothing!  I think Amazon should really re-think their programs.  In actuality this program was made to help indie authors, but instead it is killing our sales and destroying our chance at being respected.  How many of the best selling authors out there offer their book for free?  I would say few.  I know my mentor JD Konrath has done it-and was successful.  You might want to ask him how or why.  Maybe he is a better writer than I am, maybe his name was out there more than mine was, maybe...maybe maybe..I'm tired of guessing.  I just know KDP Select is not for me.  I'm going to take it off June 7th and put it out on all sites available for ebooks.  I have too much riding on my series.  My second book is almost ready to publish and I know my author voice really came out in this one.  I'm not going to risk losing a potential audience that will pay to buy my work-for one that will download it for free believing I'm just another "sucky" indie author that otherwise  wouldn't waste their time or money to read my work.  I've read all of the forums written by such readers who despise indie work and treat it like the plague.  They seem to be able to smell one before they even open the "Look Inside".  That's frightening to me.  I hope my readers go just a bit further to see what I can offer them.  It's a journey, one I wish everyone who loves to read will take.