Monday, July 21, 2014

Going Exclusive to Amazon with Kindle Unlimited

This past week, Amazon revealed a new subscription service for readers in the US called Kindle Unlimited. For $9.99/month, readers can borrow up to 10 books at a time, borrowing an unlimited number of books over the course of a month as returns are made. (You can even try it out for free with a 30-day free trial.)

Tors and I are thinking this may be the perfect way for readers to experience serials like our Untamed Series, and we've decided to try it out by placing our books into Amazon's Select program. Problem is, that means our books will be exclusive to Amazon.

We don't want to leave any of our readers out by going exclusive, but the fact is that over 95% of our sales come through Amazon, and if this new service can help more readers find and enjoy the Untamed Series, we've got to give it a try.

So we're going to make the switch next weekend (July 26/27), and we wanted to let you all know right now in case you were in the middle of the first four books, so you could get them from Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, or Google Play before we take them down at the end of the week.

We also wanted to assure you that the final book in the series WILL BE available EVERYWHERE when it comes out on August 12. Rebel Roused (Untamed #5) will be for sale at all of our regular retailers for about 2 weeks to give everyone a chance to pick it up before we add it into the Kindle Unlimited service as well.

Also, if you miss picking up a copy of any of the books at one of the other stores, it doesn't mean you have to miss out! We have a simple solution (though it takes an extra step or two). Being exclusive to Amazon means we cannot sell you the book ourselves, but we CAN email you the right file for your ereader if you can show us that you purchased the book on Amazon--you send us your receipt, we'll send you the epub file for your Nook/iBooks/Sony/Kobo reader. (Or you can pick up the Kindle app for free to read on your phone or tablet, as well.)

We are so grateful for all of your continuing support and enthusiasm! Tors and I are hard at work on Rebel Roused, and are so much looking forward to sharing it with you in August.

Until then, happy reading!
<3
Jins

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