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Writers' Cafe / Re: KU -vs- Other retailers
« on: April 19, 2018, 10:04:53 am »You couldn't find anything on the hottest debate topic on this board? You didn't look very hard. This topic is a weekly bone of contention. For the con side, read S42's posts. He beats the dead horse on KU so strongly you would think he profits from others going wide.
Only because 95% of kboards beats the pro-KU side like a dead horse (to use your logic you must profit from people joining KU). And it's disingenuous because none of you really provide the necessary caveats to warn newbies about the negatives of KU, you simply tout it as the go-to-option for all new authors.
The notion that KU generates visibility is beyond ridiculous. It requires as much marketing spend as any other market, and I'd actually argue even more given the competition on AMS. And none of you KU junkies are disclosing your AMS spend or what it's taking to make KU work with a positive ROI for you; and while it works for some there are a ton of you that it ain't working for but that you won't admit it publicly. I suspect there will be a lot more "retirements" coming over the course of the remaining year.
Instead of leading newbies off a cliff and getting them stuck in the same quagmire many of you are stuck in where you hold out your hands and await to see what King Bezos tosses into the crowd on any given month, be more vocal about the negatives of KU and I wouldn't have to.
Can KU work? ya. Can it make you rich? For some. Is it the land of lollipops and four-leaf clovers that most of you represent it to be to newbies? hell no.