New York, USA. An almost irrefutable argument in favor of services “à la carte” of music, video and books is encouraging the public to know new names and in the end, to develop a deeper relationship some of them. You can hear new songs because there is no additional cost, maybe go to the show and perhaps buy the shirt. The artist is rewarded at the end of the process and not at the beginning, as it was before.
The downside – that gained notoriety thanks to the eloquence of Taylor Swift – is the fact that teach people not worth paying for online culture. And the result is that professionals have to battle to win with something besides his art – maybe that little T-shirt? If you do not want or can not interact with the fans, end up hurt.
Traditional publishers are reluctant to jump right in pay-reading services for fear that the individual books, the authors and their work is devalued – but those who publish their own stories, called independent, many of them in his early career, not have much to lose. They are trying to move up the food chain as established names try not to fall.
Despite the name, the Mavericks are forced to rely to a greater or lesser extent, Amazon – compelled to create your own service “à la carte”, the Kindle Unlimited, to stay competitive with startups as Oyster and Scribd. It opened last July and, in the six months since the bulk of its material increased from 600 to 700 000, equivalent to almost all that was available on the Kindle el ectronic sector shortly after being introduced in 2007.
The vast majority of works Kindle Unlimited is autopublicada. In fact, it is one of the largest reading recast experiments ever undertaken. Does the service will create a new generation of readers like Amazon hopes, or will sink them in bad jobs? Will force independents to a tyrannical production line and promote only a few that are worth mentioning, much like with the old one? Or represent a path of liberation? These issues are shaking the community.
The Kindle Unlimited may change, but will not disappear. The news, announced in early January that the Scribd had received an additional injection of $ 22 million, bringing the total investment to $ 48 million, will not go unnoticed at Amazon – after all, the competitor began providing its service just over a year and ensures that the number of subscribers rose 31%.
Kathryn Le Veque has published 44 fiction books since 2012. His public was basically the Amazon, which means that when the Kindle Unlimited was established, she was forced to make it work or give up. So far, has been able to adjust.
But first, here are some facts: Kathryn was born, raised and still lives in Southern California. Now 50, writes since he was 13 and began to be rejected by traditional publishers when he was 28. His favorite scene is medieval England of what he calls “sub-sub-genre of the historical novel”. His first work emerged in the Amazon in 2012 -. And took three months thereafter to be able to quit his executive assistant job
She says that before the Kindle Unlimited, sold 6,000 books / month. As his works are long, stipulated the $ 4 price for more. Currently, the Kindle Unlimited paid $ 1.39 per book that is borrowed and read; to staff spend to buy, Kathryn came to download some of their prices up to $ 0.99. Result: the movement has tripled in the period prior to the Kindle Unlimited and its annual profit rose 50%
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