The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for November 2020 rose slightly to $0.0046 from $0.0045 in October 2020, while the KDP Select Global Fund for November 2020 increased by $300,000 to $33.2 million from $32.9 million in October 2020.
Amazon only launched the Estimated KENP Royalties metric in the US just a few weeks ago at the start of November but it has already moved to extend it to KDP authors advertising in the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia.
The fourth edition of Kindle Direct Publishing’s Pen to Publish self-publishing contest in India is open for entries from December 10, 2020 to March 10, 2021.
There were nearly 40,000 entries for The Wattys 2020 awards and the winner of the prize of a publishing deal with Wattpad Books is the YA book How to be the Best Third Wheel by Loridee De Villa (Summer Angeles).
Audible is pledging to pay authors royalties for any title returned more than seven days following purchase after protests that the company’s exchange policy allowing customers to return titles up to a year after purchase was hitting many authors.
Amazon has been piling on new features for Kindle Direct Publishing authors recently and the latest innovation is for Sponsored Brands advertising which means authors can showcase a collection of books, such as those from the same genre or series.
Amazon has added estimated Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) Royalties to the KDP performance dashboard to help authors measure the impact that ads are having on their Kindle ebooks enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
Amazon is now inviting authors to nominate their ebooks to be included in Kindle Deals and Prime Reading promotional programs.
Amazon has introduced several improvements for Author Central which mean you can now manage your Author Page, claim your books, and view your reports for multiple marketplaces from a single Author Central site with a single account.
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for October 2020 stayed steady at $0.0045, the same level as seen in September 2020, while the KDP Select Global Fund for October 2020 increased by $200,000 to $32.9 million from $32.7 million in September 2020.
One month after being hit an attack on its online systems, Barnes & Noble Press says most B&N Press and Nook services have been restored and the firm is close to bringing the remaining functions back online.
Apple Books has set out the delivery deadlines for anyone wanting to release ebooks on its platform over the holiday period between November 27, 2020, and January 1, 2021.
If you’ve got a series of books on Amazon you can now publish and update ebook and paperback series details pages automatically through Kindle Direct Publishing.
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.
