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PROMOTIONS ON AMAZON WORKING FOR AUTHORS?

If you are looking at eBook publishing Amazon offers three opportunities.        ·           Kindle Direct Publishing,(KDP) ·           Kindle Direct Publishing Select (KDP Select)    ·           Kindle Edition Normalized Page (KENP). The next question I ask who are the winners and who are the losers? Amazon – Winners! they have a manipulation on the market which means readers and authors have to have a stake in what they offer with the added benefit of earning money from all parties. Readers – Winners! They have some great options open to them, Author deals, and  KDP for the volume reader. Authors – Losers! I am writing this from an author’s point of view and how I feel the author’s fall right into the hands of Amazon and readers. Let me state from the off this is not targeted at KDP where authors have elected to take 35% commission because they do not have access to entering deals below. It is aimed at Kindle Direct Publishing Select (KDP Select)    and the major flaw, as I see it fo