
Ever wondered how to remove a book from the reading public’s gaze? Simple. Publish it exclusively on Amazon!
The company’s CEO Jeff Bezos only cares about profit. When he realised he was losing money by paying royalties to each and every author who make their book available only through his company, he put a stop to the time-honoured practice.
From the readers point of view Amazon’s all you can read for X dollars/pounds per month makes sense. The problem is that because of the way it is set up, the author gets next to nothing. Why? Because no copy of the book is actually bought, only ever borrowed and read. All the author receives is less than $0.0003 of a cent per page read!
Even if you are foolish enough to spend money in an attempt to promote your book. If it is only on Amazon, after a few days…
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