A non-fiction book has won the Kindle Storyteller UK Award for the first time with the £20,000 cash prize for 2020 going to Anna McNuff’s Llama Drama, the story of a cycling adventure through South America. The Gloucester-based writer also gets a dedicated marketing campaign on Amazon.co.uk and the prestigious Golden Kindle award.
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for September 2020 rose to $0.0045, up from $0.0043 in August, while the KDP Select Global Fund for September 2020 increased by $100,000 to $32.7 million from $32.6 million in August 2020.
An indie author has burst into the Amazon Charts this week with the distinction of being the week’s most Unputdownable novel.
Ingestion is the keyword for Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing which is tightening up on ebook formatting from this month to ensure that more books can support Enhanced Typesetting advanced typographical and layout features to offer customers a better reading experience.
Amazon’s Kindle Create software has been extended to produce print books as well as ebooks. The company says it is now possible to output digital and print versions of a book at the same time and offers the choice of paperbacks of any trim size.
Ebook distributor PublishDrive’s monthly reports on the digital book market are continuing to see substantial rises compared with the figures for the previous year.
The five books on the shortlist for the 2020 Kindle Storyteller UK Award include a vampire thriller, a detective novel, a feelgood novel, an LGBTQ romance, and a non-fiction travel book contending for the £20,000 prize.
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for August 2020 stayed steady at $0.0043, the same rate as for July 2020, while the KDP Select Global Fund for August 2020 rose by $200,000 to $32.6 million from $32.4 million in July 2020.
The Amazon Advertising scheme for KDP authors has expanded to cover Canada and Australia.
Worldwide digital book distributor StreetLib has signed a double deal with Scribd and Bibliotheca to widen its reach for audiobooks.
