psychotick
Auror
Hi Trick,
I think you're getting things a little confused. KU is simply a part of Select. If your book is in Select it's in KU automatically. Therefore if you think that KU would become mandatory for some indies, what you're really saying is that Amazon would require some indies to either put their books in Select or not publish them at all with Amazon. As for the trade published their books cannot be in KU because according to the rules they cannot be in Select since a trade published book is by definition published elsewhere.
Again I don't see that happening. First it's damn near impossible to determine which books fit into the requirement for Select based on sales numbers as in your scenario when you're often talking about books that haven't yet been published and so have no sales numbers. Second since a book can only be published in Select if it is not published anywhere else this would amount to an anti-competitive practice. And as Amazon's share of the ebook market nearly amounts to market dominance the regulatory agencies would become very upset.
Cheers, Greg.
I think you're getting things a little confused. KU is simply a part of Select. If your book is in Select it's in KU automatically. Therefore if you think that KU would become mandatory for some indies, what you're really saying is that Amazon would require some indies to either put their books in Select or not publish them at all with Amazon. As for the trade published their books cannot be in KU because according to the rules they cannot be in Select since a trade published book is by definition published elsewhere.
Again I don't see that happening. First it's damn near impossible to determine which books fit into the requirement for Select based on sales numbers as in your scenario when you're often talking about books that haven't yet been published and so have no sales numbers. Second since a book can only be published in Select if it is not published anywhere else this would amount to an anti-competitive practice. And as Amazon's share of the ebook market nearly amounts to market dominance the regulatory agencies would become very upset.
Cheers, Greg.