In a Thursday morning Digital Book World panel, bestselling self-published author Hugh Howey addressed why he moved from Amazon’s exclusive program–KDP Select–to distribution across multiple platforms, even though it meant reduced revenues from his Amazon sales. “I did it because of the hate mail,” Howey said. “I was getting emails from people who owned other devices” and wanted to read his book. “It was hard to explain to them the loss in revenue, but I understood the argument,” Howey noted. “You want to serve your customers; I totally support that now. It is a tricky situation for authors where they […]
