{"id":345,"date":"2011-05-25T23:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selenakitt.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-05-25T23:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T03:42:50","slug":"amazon-censorship-alienates-power-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selenakitt.com\/amazon-censorship-alienates-power-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Censorship Alienates Power-Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, I don’t hate to say it. <\/strong><\/p>\n But I DID tell you so!<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the numbers being thrown around, Amazon is alienating its ebook “power-buyer” audience by banning erotic fiction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n What!? People are buying PORN on their Kindles? *gasp* <\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, yes they are. They’re buying a LOT of it. And I don’t know why this is such a surprise. Porn has driven every major new technology we’ve released<\/a>. And this ain’t your mama’s porn.<\/strong><\/p>\n Look, I don’t know how much the holier-than-thou reading our porn in the closet commentary while spouting morally indignant objections from customers influenced Amazon’s decision to ban certain books from their virtual shelves – however, I do know that while those folks are a vocal MINORITY, the Kindle “power-buyers” are a non-vocal MAJORITY – and they’re voting with their dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n They are taking their business elsewhere, Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you have any idea how much my sales increased at Barnes and Noble because Amazon “banned” my erotic books from their site? ONE HUNDRED TIMES. That’s right, I went from making about $1000 a month on Barnes and Noble to… *drumroll people* almost $100,000 in a month. Now, granted, that number has decreased since the whole banning thing also happened to coincide with the Nook’s crazy Christmas-buying extravaganza, but I’m still earning three times the amount on Barnes and Noble than I am on Amazon almost six months later.<\/strong><\/p>\n The polls don’t lie. Readers are abandoning their Kindles for Nooks, especially the “power-buyers” that the publishing industry is drooling over. I could have told you months ago – in fact, I did – that the power-buyers were also erotica readers. And that while they might not email Amazon and protest about the book ban (although some did) in the numbers of the morally-objecting vocal minority – that Amazon was going to feel the sting of actual monetary loss when those erotica readers abandoned Kindle and went elsewhere to find their reading material.<\/strong><\/p>\n Told ya so.<\/strong><\/p>\n So is it a good payoff for Amazon, do you think? Was my $100,000 month just a drop in the bucket to the mega superstar? (Their cut would have been about $40K… but Barnes and Noble pocketed that money instead…)<\/strong><\/p>\n Is Amazon too big to fail?<\/strong><\/p>\n In this ebook game, I wouldn’t make assumptions like that, even if you are Amazon.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/a>
\nI hate to say I told you so, Amazon, but…<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nSelena Kitt<\/strong><\/p>\n