Why Supporting Authors on Social Media and Patreon Is Essential for Book Lovers
Build a community, change authors’ lives, and get exclusive author content
I’ve been asked a few times to go into Patreon (subscription services, but since I use Patreon, I’ll use this as an umbrella term) a bit more, and explain some of the reasons I’ve been so excited about this platform lately.
For those who are unfamiliar, Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service to download and read books on Amazon that are listed as KU. From a reader side, this is great. For one price, you can read as much as you want.
From an author side, this is also great… but it’s also hard. When we put our books in KU, we give Amazon exclusive rights to hold our digital book. That means we can’t sell or give away our ebooks on any other platform. However, we also get paid for those page reads, so if a reader keeps going on our book, we get paid for that read.
Honestly, this is incredible for me. KU is where most of my readers find me, and Amazon is an excellent resource for book readers. KU is also great because you can test out a book and not feel guilty if it isn’t your thing. You return it via KU and the author gets paid for those page reads without getting penalized.
