Exclusive

The Kindle Unlimited Decision, and How to Test It Instead of Arguing About It

A decade-old argument you can answer with arithmetic that takes one evening.

Exclusive is a book in the Indie Author Guide Line: short, source-checked guides for independent authors who have finished writing and now have to be found. The wide-versus-exclusive question has been conducted for years as a matter of temperament, with each side describing the other's readers as imaginary. It is answerable.

This book takes no side and insists the reader take one — on evidence, for their own catalog, not on tribal loyalty.

What's inside:

• What a page read is worth against what a sale is worth, and how to calculate it for your books
• Why the KU payout moves and where to actually watch it move
• What ninety days of exclusivity forecloses, specifically
• What going wide pays, and how long it realistically takes to pay it
• How to design a real test on a real title, rather than one built to confirm what you already believe
• How to read your own test results honestly once you have them

This is not a verdict on wide versus exclusive. What it will do is supply the calculations and the test design, so the answer belongs to your numbers, on your catalog, not to an argument that's been running for a decade.

From the Indie Author Guide Line, from Novel Concepts Publishing.