22.07.14 | Philip Jones Concern has been raised that the move could dilute author earnings, while limiting authors’ abilities to sell their content on other e-book sites. Some have also questioned why Amazon is paying participating publishers a wholesale fee for the read of each title, while indie writers are offered a percentage of a pool of money.
There are also questions of how the subscription service will effect e-book sales on Kindle, and the impact it is already having on Kindle’s bestseller charts—with each "read" on Kindle Unlimited counted as a sale.Kindle Unlimited launched last week with 600,000 e-books and 2,000 audio-titles made available for a monthly fee of $9.99. It competes directly with rival services such as Scribd and Oyster. So far the vast majority of titles are co-opted from Amazon’s KDP Select service for indie writers, which demands exclusivity in return for additional promotional opportunities.
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