{"id":17084,"date":"2016-04-25T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17084"},"modified":"2016-04-25T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:27:49","slug":"publishers-not-falling-for-kindle-unlimited-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17084","title":{"rendered":"Publishers not falling for Kindle Unlimited trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/amazon-is-enticing-publishers-to-opt-into-kindle-unlimited\"><strong>GoodeReader<\/strong><\/a> writes about <strong>Amazon<\/strong> trying to coax publishers and agents into the <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> all-you-can-eat (kinda) eBook subscription service.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t going to happen. The traditional publishers don&#8217;t want in, even if they&#8217;re offered perks and their\u00a0titles do not have to be exclusive, because <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> has already snared a lot\u00a0of\u00a0the unpredictable Indie eBook competition that was challenging the status quo. Additionally,\u00a0<strong>Kindle Unlimited&#8217;s Prime-oriented algorithms<\/strong> have dampened the energy\u00a0that once powered\u00a0the emergent\u00a0<strong>Amazon eBook market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, publishers and agents\u00a0can see this\u00a0move by <strong>Amazon<\/strong> as a sign that the <strong>Kindle Unlimited model<\/strong> is going to fail completely without them. So long as traditional publishers dictate pricing in the wider marketplace, <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> looks like a low-rent answer to a question mainstream\u00a0readers\u00a0never asked.<\/p>\n<p>And with <strong>Amazon&#8217;s<\/strong> habit of changing deals after you sign? No. These publishers have\u00a0all been burned before, and now they passively reap the benefits of <strong>Kindle Unlimited&#8217;s<\/strong> toxic effect on Amazon&#8217;s vast stock of Indie titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader writes about Amazon trying to coax publishers and agents into the Kindle Unlimited all-you-can-eat (kinda) eBook subscription service. It isn&#8217;t going to happen. The traditional publishers don&#8217;t want in, even if they&#8217;re offered perks and their\u00a0titles do not have to be exclusive, because Kindle Unlimited has already snared a lot\u00a0of\u00a0the unpredictable Indie eBook competition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=17084\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,4,5,8,15,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17090,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084\/revisions\/17090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}