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Bye Bye Kindle Unlimited - pulled the ripcord today

So I pulled the plug on Kindle Unlimited (Kindle Select) today and unenrolled all my books.

It will take three months for them all to officially come out.

* System Crash and A Fool's Requiem will be out end of December.
* Obey will be out end of January
* Days of Judgment will be out the beginning of March.

To my readers who follow me through KU, my apologies for this shift. It had to be done though. The KU system is not reporting reads properly (in my opinion - per my other post, I can't prove it definitively)  and there is no admission by Amazon of this malfunctioning (much less any direction in terms of fixing the issue).

For those readers who pick up Days of Judgment in the coming months only to find that book two and three are not in the KU system (meaning they can only be purchased directly), I am very sorry about that. Unfortunately, with KU, authors don't get to pick when a book comes out of the system (it's based on three-month enrollment terms... when the term is up, that's when you can leave).

On the positive side, in March I'll be looking at extending the availability of my works to the other e-reader platforms. So those who don't buy from Amazon will have access to my work as well.

Frustrating and disappointing that this had to happen, but sometimes you have to save what hair you have left rather than continuing to pull it out.

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