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Apple Books, Here I Come! So Long, Exclusivity

January 17, 2020 /

I’ve had my ebooks exclusive to Amazon Kindle for years, in 90-day enslavements. This year I’m shaking things up and doing what I want to do, in part to reinvigorate my own creative output. Having ebooks sitting on Amazon year after year, unavailable anywhere else, is like killing them. Forgetting about them. Why did I write them? And how may people with Kindle Unlimited subscriptions are downloading them while Amazon rakes in the monthly fees and I get pennies? No more.

As my books come off the exclusivity period (all by the end of February), I’ll be adding them to Barnes and Noble (Nook), Kobo, and now Apple Books. I’m not concerned about how many I sell. My hustling days are over, those desperate months hoping I get enough from the free reads on Kindle to pay for a foot massage. I want to own my ebooks, just like musicians want to own their masters. So let’s start here …

2 Comments

  • Mark

    January 17, 2020 at 11:59 am

    Thanks Jean. Like a lot of self published authors, I clung to the hope I might make $100 this month from the free reads, which is mostly what was coming in at this point. I know so many writers who hate the exclusivity but are afraid to give up the (often paltry) income. It’s nice to “not need the money” and finally say fuck it, I want to expand the platforms I’m on. It does remind me why I wrote a book eight years ago. It gives me some creative things to do again, and makes me interested in my own writing. Love your painting, by the way.