KU feels like a gamechanger, and yet it’s hard to say how things will develop from now on. Differing paths of evolution Over the past few years it’s started to appear to me that “webfiction” and “serials” have been evolving along different (but not necessarily contradictory) paths - one with a free/community-based model (Wattpad et al), and another, more aggressive commercial model. Enter Kindle Unlimited – For $9.99 a month, a reader can read anything they want in the program.Īnd even half a year in, it’s really tough to gauge the full implications - in particular the question of “who is really using/will continue to subscribe to KU in the long run?” 4. Great deal for the reader and fair for the author, but potentially not as profitable as independent releases as above, and also not good for writers with really lengthy serials.
The program seemed to approach the matter essentially as if serials were novels: a reasonable one time payment per serial with all subsequent episodes free. Despite complaints, there has clearly also been a large contingent of readers who are perfectly happy paying for what they love (or who complain about it but pay up anyway). sure, apples and oranges, but probably just as much so as comparing serials with novels in the first place – 99c may be a friendlier price for readers (from what I observed there were complaints even at that price point though), but disadvantages authors due to the lower royalty rate – This was an issue Kindle Serials faced as well. Of course, either way it hasn’t really stopped these installments from selling like hotcakes.
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