Kindle first reads september 20221/19/2024 ![]() ![]() So, it’s a classic case of the 80/20 rule at play here e.g. It is biased towards big sellers and best sellers who gain ALL the prominent exposure and positions on the site, many flying high in high-trafficked overall top 100 categories, and those are also promoted via the KINDLE UNLIMITED program emails Amazon sends to its 3.5 million subscribers of the program.įurthermore, even though Amazon says only 50 authors make over $100,000 a year, about 10 or 15 make a million or more. As a basic example, it is estimated that over 300,000 authors on Amazon only receive small amounts from the fund each month/year. Having done some research on this, the KDP Select millions are very disproportionately spread. Let’s not put the shopping cart, before the art. There are teenagers today, who can drop out of college on the power of their words – from Acapulco to Zanzibar – purely on the merit of their craft and soar to heights that were unthinkable 25 years ago. We will probably need to investigate a little deeper into the malady you identify, rather than taking a disgruntled swipe at the lowest lying punching bag. Today, as an author of a best-selling, critically acclaimed work of fiction (and also, as that impoverished child who devoured books for free), I’d support any system that creates “book junkies who now expect every book to be for free” YET pay the “mere” US$ 9.99. 20 per month (US$ 0.3) – which was approximately 10% of my family’s income. I remember my most remarkable reads (that makes me whatever little I am today) being from free libraries that were stacked with rows and rows of wondrous pages. (Probably the most difficult decision a writer has to make). I’m responding to your post, as I feel contrary to your slightly belligerent choice of words. July 2014: $2.5 million (This is the first month of Kindle Unlimited). ![]() If you’d like a more in-depth look into Kindle Unlimited and the KDP Global Fund, you’re welcome to read our analysis of KU Readers, or check out our overview of KU and what it means for authors. In this post, we will be keeping a running list of the fund sizes, so we can see how it’s grown, and (we hope) watch it continue to do so. This is the pot of money that authors whose titles are available through Kindle Unlimited get paid out of. ![]() Every month Amazon announces the size of the previous month’s Kindle Direct Publishing Global Fund. ![]()
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