The Kindle Direct Publishing Pen to Publish Contest 2021 has picked the winners of its fourth annual awards for self-published authors in India writing in long-format and short-format categories across English, Hindi and Tamil languages.
The Kindle Unlimited KDP Select Global Fund for June 2021 showed a monthly increase of $600,000 to $36.5 million from $35.9 million in May 2021 while the KENP rate for June 2021 stayed at $0.0044, the same level as seen in May 2021.
Broadcaster and author Clare Balding is joining the judging panel for this year’s Kindle Storyteller Award, which offers the winner a £20,000 cash prize and a marketing promotion for their title on Amazon.co.uk.
Amazon’s Kindle Vella platform for serialized stories launched on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, with tens of thousands of episodes available to readers, including stories from well-known self-publishers, such as Hugh Howey.
Amazon’s new self-published serial story venture is going live next month with Kindle Vella stories becoming available to readers in the Kindle iOS app and on Amazon.com by mid to late July.
The Kindle Unlimited KDP Select Global Fund for May 2021 rose strongly by $400,000 to $35.9 million from $35.5 million in April 2021 while the KENP rate for May 2021 edged back to $0.0044 from $0.0045 in April 2021.
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good has won the 45th annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award which offers a cash prize of $60,000 for first-time Canadian novelists.
Amazon is introducing a new color printing option for KDP print books which can almost halve the cost of color printing when compared with premium color. The cut-price choice could open up a new market for indie authors looking to offer color print books at a more economical price to readers.
Amazon is offering a new text editor for Kindle book descriptions which provides options for formatting the description and previewing before publishing.
Kobo is launching the Elipsa e-reader which includes a stylus that turns the device into a notebook where you can mark up or annotate an ebook, with a major caveat (see later in this article), or write documents of your own.
Details for The Watty Awards 2021 have been revealed and this year the Wattys are looking for completed novels across a dozen categories and have added a new contest category for Best Cover, which is backed by Canva.