A.E. Sawan asked Richard Sutton:

Hi Richard, Do you recommend to join kdp Select, initially to get the story out and than take it out??

Richard Sutton AE, it's hard for me to give advice based solely on my own experience. I tried KDP Select for two of my titles but didn't notice much of a bump either during or when they were removed. Since my own work is cross-genre and can be hard to classify, I like to distribute my books to the widest potential markets in the niches I write in, so I use Smashwords, typically first, then KDP, non-select (which with only three international exceptions still allows me 70% royalties followed by print through CSpace. Smashwords also distributed my eBooks to Kobo, Sony, IBooks, and several other booksellers, and since I'm running full distribution in CSpace, Barnes & Noble also sells my books in print.
On the other hand, I have friends who write in Historical Fiction and Romance who have had very good results from Select, and another who writes in Fantasy who sells books every single day! It's clear from their experiences that Amazon is a large enough seller that they really don;t need additional exposure to make money and gain recognition. Select works for them.

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