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The brakes Made in France
Several hypotheses are set by publishers and professional digital book. The French law on the single price would be a problem, the contract law copyright in the digital age is still not confirmed and conditions for writers are not sufficiently defined.
Amazon would have to propose that independent authors in the Kindle offers Unlimited France which is not sufficiently seller. And then there is also the ongoing problem and unresolved between Hachette Book Group and Amazon (when the weight of Hachette in France we know it can make them think). In short lots of assumptions are more or less credible progress.
Kindle Unlimited does not convince pros
BIG Five , the largest US publishers, have not signed up for this program in the USA. In Britain and Germany this is the case.
In the US, a study has shown that independent authors n ‘not have much interest in joining KU. Indeed, self-published authors, provided with exclusive Kindle Unlimited, did in fact, on average, no advantage in using this service, the price (30% market share) by separating them from other platforms being too high relative to earnings, we indicated a writer.
A distributor of digital books warns publishers
Intangible which distributes hundreds of French publishers on different platforms ebooks wrote to its customers warning them about joining KU .
We obtained this document which we reproduce here an excerpt: “ one pay 60% for the PPHT editor for buying the act, compensation rises sharply to 20% of PPHT, besides the intangible commission. It is therefore a net loss of more than 40% of your income when a book is consumed via Kindle Unlimited rather than selling the act.
Amazon Our contacts we confirm that when their American clientele and English began to enjoy this mode of consumption, the first free months quickly turned into paid subscriptions. Everything invites us to believe that the consumption subscriptions will be preferred by their clients if they have the choice, which must create a shortfall for the editor s. “.
About The intangible rejoin therefore, in part, the study by Author Earning cited above but to scale an editor, that is to say, a company with a catalog of ebooks result.
Moreover, the retailer continues and will even qualify Kindle Unlimited program “ consumption patterns deadly ” for the chain as a whole book.
Intangible continues: “ Contrary to what Amazon wants to believe it will not have the effect of creating a new market, but most certainly cannibalize your sales, and the adverse effect that will have on your sales will only lead to an imbalance in our distribution partnership if you choose to engage on your own. We took the decision not to put your finger in this gear, and we strongly discourage you to do . “
Masterpieces at risk?
Facing the Amazon economic model that offers good subscription numbers of publishers are lost. A distributor to set the record straight time seems pretty healthy, if Amazon does not use retaliatory measures in the short, medium or long term.
We interviewed a digital publisher to seek his views on the terms offered by Amazon on KU. His answer is clear-cut: “ In comparison with Youboox or YouScribe [Editor's note: French platforms subscription], we are losing with Amazon .. But above all, it is obvious to us that readers will rush about this offer and this will inevitably at the expense of buying the act. We can not base our business model on the subscription without jeopardizing what we built 5 years ago. “
On the other hand, publishers they read all the fine print of the contract with Amazon at the launch of their print catalogs and / or digital?
According to our information, it is rumored that everything is already provided in these famous lines and small publishers will be hard to say no in the end …
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