The End of Amazon-Exclusive
Going Wide with your books
It started with a post on the 20 Books to 50k Facebook page. Maybe it was a year ago, maybe less. I can’t remember.
But I remember the utter despair, and the terror oozing from the page as an author pleaded for advice. She was a prolific author with over 50 titles to her name. ALL enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. She was an Amazon-exclusive author and made fantastic money doing it.
Then one morning, she woke up to an email informing her that one of her books had been found on another site. This violated her contract with Kindle Unlimited.
As a result… her entire Kindle Direct Publishing account was nuked. Her entire income gone in a flash. No appeal. No customer service. Nothing.
The cruelest part was that she hadn’t violated Amazon’s terms of service. Her book was uploaded to a pirating site.
Her intellectual property was stolen, and as a result, Amazon (or likely a robot) felt empowered to take her entire life’s work and income.
If memory serves, she was able to get her account back after …