Why I joined Kindle Unlimited

Back when Kindle Unlimited was first announced, I said I wasn’t going to join it. The reasons were that I didn’t like the idea ofgiving Amazon exclusivity over my content and also because I didn’t like the royalty pay-out of a flat rate per book regardless of the book’s price. Compared to the competing subscription services of Oyster and Scribd (which pay you a percentage of the book’s list price), I didn’t think KU was very healthy.

But that was then and this is now. Amazon has since change...