The Emerging
Author program automatically renews on a monthly basis.
Not exact matches
The new
program is designed to deliver additional marketing benefits that
authors and publishers have been asking for, including more ways to reach the
author's readers, and
automatically adding the book to the Want - to - Read lists of anyone entering the giveaway.
In the most interesting news about the launch, the Unlimited catalog — which features 600,000 ebooks and 2,000 audiobooks —
automatically includes self - published works that
authors have listed in Amazon's exclusive
program, KDP Select.
eBooks uploaded through KDP are not
automatically entered into the Select
program, meaning the
authors are not limited as to where the ebook can be sold.
Within weeks of the launch,
authors were complaining that it was devaluing their books, in some cases by large amounts — and that they couldn't opt out of the
program because anyone participating in the Kindle Direct Publishing Select
program (which requires exclusivity) was
automatically added to Kindle Unlimited.
Some activities, including sitting as an acting judge, judging at moot court
programs, unpaid
authoring and publishing legal articles, and volunteering on certain committees, are
automatically accredited.