I’m not the slowest writer around, but I’m not producing a new 45,000-word book every three weeks, either. Some people can still write good books in those circumstances. ? The Kindle Unlimited ecosystem is not supportive of how I write.įor a number of technical reasons, Amazon in general and KU in particular reward publishing a whole lot of books extremely quickly. There are a few big-name authors Amazon does not require exclusivity of, but I’m not one of them. They have also cost me income, gobs of time that should have gone to writing, and a whole lot of frustration in trying to get them fixed.Īnd with each mess (if I counted correctly, it’s up to 10 in 2018), I back away even farther from the tiniest possibility that I would ever trust my books to Amazon exclusively. My books have not been available for sale when they should be, have been the wrong prices, have not displayed reviews correctly … and that’s just in the past six weeks.Įach of those issues has been bad for the readers. More specifically, Amazon has displayed increasing unreliability technically and in customer support when the technical goes kerflooey. I’m not going to let any entity have control of my works and livelihood.

I am inherently against giving any vendor enduring exclusive rights to my books. Amazon requires exclusivity - what that means to me.

I’m not going to do that to those loyal readers. In order to make my books available in the Kindle Unlimited umbrella, I would have to take them away from every reader who reads through or shops on iBooks, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, GooglePlay, Tolina, and a whole lot of other places around the world. Some readers ask why Patricia McLinn books are not in Kindle Unlimited – here are my reasons: Amazon requires exclusivity - what that means to readers.

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