Kindle Unlimited (KU) is a program that requires books be exclusively sold on Amazon. Subscribers pay a monthly fee and can read an unlimited number of books in the KU library. Overall, we’ve loved being part of the program—it’s especially nice for readers that are reading long series. Unfortunately, Amazon recently started paying authors lower rates per page read than it used to.
Author Tao Wong has a great blog post explaining the current situation. You can read it here.
Because of this, we’re going to remove some of Glynn Stewart’s series from the exclusive program—and make them available to even more readers. The Exile and Changeling Blood trilogies will soon be available on all major ebook retailers (including Amazon). However, this means that KU subscribers will no longer be able to access these books for free.
All of Glynn’s books will still be available for purchase on Amazon.
You have until August 1 to borrow both trilogies as part of your KU subscription. There’s no due date: once you add the books to your borrowed items, you’ll be able to access them until you return them.
Click the images below to borrow each book on Amazon. Start here with Exile.
Exile
Changeling Blood
I see no problem with this. Before KU I had to purchase all my books. First as physical books by mail (from Amazon) in the early 2000s and eventually digital additions with Kindle release. If KU becomes untenable for the author I see no issue removing your work from KU.
I found Glenn’s works via KU, as well as several other authors I now read regularly. After having got to know their work using it I usually will buy them outright. If its untenable to keep series on it, i think that totally fair.
I’d encourage keeping some support on it though as it does serve as a low bar of entry to new readers