Selena Kitt’s Excessica is closing its doors as of the first of next year to new submissions. Yet another small publisher who can’t make a profit at a time when Amazon is soaking up all the profits and offering books so cheap through KU that no one could compete:
Dear Authors,
I am writing this with a heavy heart, but I can’t put it off any longer.
Excessica is closing to all submissions starting in 2019. This includes current authors. (Fido, our sister non-erotic site, will be closing to submissions as well).
Unfortunately, due to the market decline, Excessica has become less and less viable as a business model. So many small e-publishers have closed down over the past five years, and I’ve watched all of them fold with a sense of sadness and some dread.
I knew this day might be coming for us.
I’ve crunched the numbers again and again and I always come to the same place. Adding the burden of new books releasing every week, without enough of a return to continue to afford the accounting and clerical effort to process them, isn’t feasible anymore.
We will continue to maintain the books we do have, and payment will continue as usual. As always, we have non-exclusive rights, so the books are yours to do with as you like. If any of you want your rights reverted, you just have to ask.
I want to thank all of you for trusting me with your books over the years. I have been honored to know and work with all of you. While it saddens me to have to make this decision, I will still be here, keeping Excessica alive, in the hopes that at some point, the direction of the wind will change, and I may be able to open submissions once again.
With deepest regret,
Selena
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I didn't put this in the Steam Room because it's not specifically about erotica. My comment is more about the viability of small e-publishers today.