Not exact matches
(Remember, Amazon has now forbidden placement of the ToC at the back of a
book because less than ethical authors were doing so to work the system of
page turns in Kindle
Unlimited.)
Now, it's visual right on the screen in real - time, and compiled sales, free KDP Select downloads, and
page reads if the
book is in Kindle
Unlimited.
The big problem with the
unlimited model is that publishers want to be paid for the full amount of the
book's purchase price if a customer reads a certain number of
pages.
In June, Amazon announces a new pay - per -
page - read system to replace pay - per -
book system used by Kindle Online Lending Library and Kindle
Unlimited.
From the Pricing Tool
page that just went live (in your Dashboard): FREE ebooks - If your
book is priced at FREE, the library will have the option to check it out to an
unlimited number of library patrons.
Look for the Kindle
Unlimited «With Narration» icon on Kindle
book pages or browse our catalog of titles with free audiobook companions.
If you're in the KDP Select program and are enrolled in the Kindle
Unlimited lending program (it's automatic for KDP Select
books — you have to opt out), you're paid according to how many
pages are read total — among all borrowers.
(If you compare the manx prize's
book page to any of ours, you'll note they removed the «$ 0.00 with kindle
unlimited» announcement from right by the ebook / paper price on every
page.
So, if you've got a
book in Kindle
Unlimited and want more
page reads, one of the things you can do is analyze your scenes to make sure all five commandments are in place.
And, Kindle will soon begin compensating you for your
book's appearance in KOLL and
Unlimited by the number of
pages that readers consume, rather than the percentage of the
book that's read.
Biarritz Passion: French Summer Novel
Book 1 Laurette Long Suspense and slow burn romance in this
page - turner set in exotic Basque country «beautifully written by a master story teller» $ 0.99 or free on Kindle
Unlimited
I LOVE watching my
page reads grow in Kindle
Unlimited, and I think I have the type of
books that keep people reading.
For both indie authors or traditionally published authors, a strong opening chapter translates into sales (through
book excerpts and previews),
page views on services such as Kindle
Unlimited, a larger author platform, and increased income.
Beginning July 1st, writers with
books enrolled in Amazon's Kindle
Unlimited program will not be paid per borrow, they'll be paid per
page read, meaning, per
page as
pages are counted by Amazon.
Between Ashes and putting all the
books into Kindle
Unlimited at once, the
page - reads for the month might be enough for me to get a Kindle All - Star bonus.
I hope Kindle
Unlimited kills their measly 60
page $ 15 dollar
books for good.
However, a new issue with Select, namely the
books» inclusion in the Kindle
Unlimited reading platform, means that authors are currently paid out at around 0.04 cents per
page for KU readers, an amount that has been steadily dropping all year.
Because we are with Kindle Direct Publishing, and our
book is available in Kindle
Unlimited, over the 10 days subsequent to the promotion, we averaged just over 20,000
pages read per day.
These accounts typically allow
unlimited access to
page views of digital
books for a flat fee.
When your eBook is enrolled in Kindle
Unlimited program or the Kindle Owners Lending, you will earn a share of the KDP Select Global Fund based on how many
pages KU or KOLL customers read of your
book.
Four types of strokes can be used to simulate the experience of using a real pen, and an
unlimited number of
books and
pages can be created (2).
Amazon has announced that it will begin paying its authors based on the number of
pages read, rather than
books sold.From 1 July Kindle
Unlimited and Kindle Owners» Lending Library authors will no longer be paid for each title downloaded, but rather on... Read more
Marvel
Unlimited, the comic
book publisher's all - you - can - read subscription service, lets superhero fans
page through decades of Marvel Comics history for the price of a trade paperback per month.
And, as with Kindle
Unlimited, you are paid for each «normalized»
page read of a
book borrowed under KOLL.
Selling exclusively through Amazon has been much more profitable than my brief stint with wider distribution, because in addition to sales, subscribers to Kindle
Unlimited have read more than half a million
pages of my
book over the last 6 months.
Starting on July 1, 2015,
books downloaded by readers subscribed to the Kindle
Unlimited service will pay - out to authors in a different way — a paid - per -
page - read policy, as opposed to the «first 10 percent» policy that Amazon was using when it unveiled the KDP Select program last year.
71 % of
books published and added to Kindle
Unlimited in the past month have 101
pages or more.
If 40 % of the
books added to Kindle
Unlimited each month are short reads (100
pages or less), then the ratio of short reads to full - length Kindle e-
books will approach 40 %.
You will notice this
book is in KDP Select because I am anxious to see how the new «payment by
pages finished» process of Kindle
Unlimited works.
Those people immediately flooded Kindle
Unlimited with millions of four -
page «
books» (often called things like The Da Vinci Codex by Don Brown).
In July 2015, Amazon adjusted the royalty payout for eBooks enrolled in Kindle
Unlimited from a per -
book to a per -
page basis.
The greatest pro of KDP Select is considered to be Kindle
Unlimited: your
book is available as part of a subscription program in U.S, U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia, and you'll be paid from a global fund based on how many
pages your readers have read.
In July of 2015, Amazon adjusted the royalty payout for eBooks enrolled in Kindle
Unlimited from a per -
book to a per -
page basis.
Target exactly when your
books appear on Amazon — without spending a lot of time or money Sell more
books (old ones and new ones) See more continuous sales, rather than a spike that plummets Get a higher Amazon Best Seller Rank and category rank Increase your
pages read (if you're in Kindle
Unlimited) Build a bigger email list AND get more traffic to your website, products, or services
Although not selected by Scout, Nick of Time is her highest ranked
book so far, with thousands of
page views on Kindle
Unlimited (a subscription program that pays the author based on how many
pages are read).
It's essentially Let's Get Visible Redux — a tight, 50 -
page book which covers how all the various parts of the Kindle Store work in 2018, and, crucially, how that must affect your marketing plans, with advice based on if you are wide vs. in Kindle
Unlimited.
I recently quit Kindle
Unlimited because they changed how they paid their authors (by number of
pages read vs number of downloads, something that punishes
books with less than 300
pages).
KU (Kindle
Unlimited) subscribers will see a badge under your
book's title in the Kindle Store, and the
book will also be included on Amazon's Kindle
Unlimited page.
If you login to your Amazon account and go to the Manage Your Content and Devices
page you can select to view
books from Kindle
Unlimited and Prime Reading from the drop - down list.
I started the pen name
books there, to take advantage of the sales ranking / visibility boost from Kindle
Unlimited, and I returned them to KDP Select this August, after not gaining much headway in the other stores and after Amazon switched to Kindle
Unlimited 2.0, a system that rewards novelists by paying based on total
pages read.
I have converted all my
books, 18 novels that average 270
pages (print) per
book to KDP Select and
Unlimited.
Titles that are categorized as Erotica are unable to be in the Kindle Short Reads section, so let's assume, for arguments sake, that of the 1 million titles in Kindle
Unlimited, around 400,000 are under 100
pages long, and we know according to Amazon the average length of a
book read is 210
pages long.
In case you're not in the loop about this, KENPC is a unified
page counting system that Amazon uses to track the
pages read of kindle
book's borrowed through the Kindle
Unlimited and KOLL programs.
Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have both made their ebooks available to Scribd and Oyster, but I haven't yet seen
books from those publishers on the Kindle
Unlimited page, though I'm not done poking through all 600,000 + titles yet.
I also have a boxed set of those four
books (over 1000
pages) in the Kindle
Unlimited program to earn royalties on
pages read.
Amazon is changing the way it pays self - published authors whose
books are enlisted in the Kindle
Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending library to a pay - per -
page - read... Read more
Publishers can list an
unlimited number of authors and their authors»
books in their own co-branded Smashwords bookstore
page.
The main advantage of Select is that the
book will always be free for Amazon Prime and Kindle
Unlimited subscribers, but Amazon will pay you when they borrow the
book, approximately six tenths of a penny per
page read.
Kindle
Unlimited, which comprises mainly of self - published ebooks, operates largely on a different basis in that Amazon sets a KDP Global fund each month and then pays out from that fund to authors according to the number of
pages read for their
books.
If an author really will be able to earn $ 1,000 a month from only 100 fully - read downloads of a 100 -
page book — that's just over three downloads a day — then Kindle
Unlimited will become truly worthwhile for writers, although the economics of the example payments look shaky, to say the least.