Why are people cancelling their subs for fairyloot?
I’ve been seeing loads of people cancelling FairyLoot recently and I get some of the reasons, but not all of them??
For example, if you don’t want to support an author because of their views, I completely understand that. If *that* author turned up in my subscription, I’d probably skip the book too (and by probably, I mean definitely lmao)
But I guess what I don’t really understand is all the talk about “fake scarcity”?? Cause maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I’ve never actually struggled to get a FairyLoot edition I wanted. And from what I understand, publishers only license a certain number of copies anyway (but this could be wrong)!!) so FairyLoot can’t just keep printing indefinitely from my understanding
The only other thing I’ve really noticed is people complaining that big//popular releases are ending up in general sales instead of the subscription, and saying that’s unfair. But… isn’t that actually more fair?
Cause from my understanding is if a huge release is sold separately, anyone has a chance to buy it. If it’s locked behind the subscription, then only subscribers do…
I also wonder if part of that aspect of the backlash is that special editions just aren’t as exclusive anymore?? A few years ago (or even months tbf) they felt almost impossible to get, so they were really hyped especially on TikTok but now a lot more publishers are doing special editions and FairyLoot are putting those more sought after books into general sales, they’re easier to get
And for me I think that’s a good thing as I’d rather more readers have access than everything end up being impossible to buy unless you’re paying reseller prices
Am I missing something here? Is there another reason people are cancelling that I’m overlooking?