Authors also need to unhook from Amazon, and here are some reasons why:
- They keep at least 30% of the cut, but much more if you dare to include high quality images in your e-books. That map you spend a week or two creating? It'll be a messy blur in a kindle.
- If you are not a best-seller, Amazon brings you nothing in terms of discoverability. In fact:
- the moment a potential reader lands on your book's page, Amazon will show them ads for other books. Consider that that potential reader may have come there after you paid for ads in Amazon or in some other platform, or after you spent a day doing in-person marketing at an arts fair. That's just asinine.
The discoverability issue affects me the most as a reader, since Amz keeps surfacing ten-a-dime stories that happen somewhere in USA, mention starwars three times per page, and involve werewolves.
- They keep at least 30% of the cut, but much more if you dare to include high quality images in your e-books. That map you spend a week or two creating? It'll be a messy blur in a kindle.
- If you are not a best-seller, Amazon brings you nothing in terms of discoverability. In fact:
- the moment a potential reader lands on your book's page, Amazon will show them ads for other books. Consider that that potential reader may have come there after you paid for ads in Amazon or in some other platform, or after you spent a day doing in-person marketing at an arts fair. That's just asinine.
The discoverability issue affects me the most as a reader, since Amz keeps surfacing ten-a-dime stories that happen somewhere in USA, mention starwars three times per page, and involve werewolves.