Why Exclusivity is Bad (Unless You’re Amazon)

I have got a few e-books in Kindle Unlimited – but way more – (like about forty e-books) – that are available through Kobo, Nook, Apple, Smashwords, Tolino and several other markets – as WELL as Kindle.

Kobo Writing Life

We recently read, with significant interest, a series of articles that author Nick Stephenson began posting regarding experiments in pulling titles out of KDP Select (a program that Amazon runs which encourages authors to publish their titles to Kindle and make them unavailable anywhere else, whether that’s another retailer or selling directly from the author’s own website)

In a post entitled Income Report: Why Exclusivity is Bad (Unless You’re Amazon), Stephenson talks about how exclusivity can be a good thing, but then outlines an imaginary conversation between a breakfast cereal manufacturer and Walmart, in order to illustrate whether or not the supplier is getting a fair wholesale price and actual tangible benefits.

He goes on to make a few conclusions regarding going all in with a single retailer (we’ve captured some highlights below):

The bottom line: exclusivity is a terrible idea if you’re not getting anything in return for…

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You know you’re a writer when…

“You put the pro in procrastination.” I love it! 🙂

Suffolk Scribblings

I thought I’d have a little fun today so I gave myself an hour to come up with as many different situations I could think of when you know you’re a writer. So, you know when you’re a writer when…

1. Every argument you have becomes fodder for your WIP, but smarter, snappier and with you winning.
2. You would rather spend time on your WIP than do work that pays more in a day than you book will likely earn in a month.
3. You love every part of your WIP.
4. You hate every part of your WIP.
5. You know what WIP means.
6. You stop a conversation mid-sentence to write down a plot point that’s just occurred to you.
7. You cannot stop thinking about your novel. Ever. Even in your dreams.
8. You know your main character better than your best friend.
9. You have conversations with your characters in your head.
10. Your friends stop asking about…

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