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different? All right. Let's get started. Hey guys. Welcome back to this week's Q&A with S&J. This

week's question is from John Hypes. And John says in your podcast, you mentioned that if I decide to do

Kindle Publishing, I can still offer the product on my site. Is this really true? Okay, John,

well, we want to preface this by saying that it's always important that no matter who you're

working with, that you need to read their terms and conditions fully and that things are subject to change at any time. We are certainly not experts in this realm,

or we are also not legal professionals. So don't take what we say. And we don't work for Amazon.

Yeah. So, you know, don't take what we say is the gospel. You need to always check into these types of things before you get started. But as of right now, Shane has done some research for you, and he has some information. All right. If you're going to publish on Amazon, like you've got an e-book and you want to sell it, you know, on Amazon Kindle or something like that, there's basically two services that Amazon offers. They have where you can just publish your book

and sell it individually on Kindle, but then they also have this like subscription service where you can

include your, like people can pay like so much a month and they can read unlimited books and ebooks on their

device. And basically what happens is you can go in and you can be a part of that. But if you do,

then you're not allowed to sell your book anywhere else except through that area of Amazon.

So basically you've got Kindle Direct Publishing where you can publish your book and you can

publish it on Kindle. People can buy it. but then you can still offer it over on your website.

Now, there are some limitations to that. You'll have to read Amazon's terms and conditions to see that.

But they also have a new service, that subscription service that's called Kindle Unlimited.

And if you choose to publish in Kindle Unlimited, then you have to make your title exclusive to the Kindle service. So basically you have the option.

You can either sell it one way where you can publish it on your site to or you can choose Amazon's

service where you can make it exclusive on Kindle. Now they reward you for doing that. I think they

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