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Amazon India has launched its annual Kindle Direct Publishing Pen to Publish Contest which is the fifth year of the competition for self-published writers.
Self-publishing author L J Ross is the runner-up on Amazon.co.uk's list of the best-selling book series on the site since it was launched in 1998.
The May 2022 Kindle Vella bonus rose to $900,000 from $875,000 in April, showing a marked slowdown in rate of increase from previous monthly rises of $50,000.
There was a big increase in the KDP Select Global Fund for Kindle Unlimited for May 2022 as it shot up by $1.8 million to $43.3 million from $41.5 million in April 2022.
Adam Kay, author of the multi-million best-selling medic memoir This Is Going To Hurt − Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, has joined the judging panel for the 2022 Kindle Storyteller UK Award.
Serial fiction self-publishing site Radish Fiction is moving into the audiobook market and is teaming up with audiobook distribution company Findaway Voices.
Amazon has switched Kindle Direct Publishing Reports over to the updated Beta version and will soon be removing the old reporting format.
Low-content books such as notebooks, journals and planners can now be published through Kindle Direct Publishing without an ISBN.
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for April edged up to $0.0044 from $0.0043 in March as the KDP Select Global Fund rose by $100,000 to $41.5 million in April 2022 from $41.4 million in March 2022.
Kindle Direct Publishing is running Storyteller contests throughout Europe, with the KDP sites in Germany, France, Italy and Spain now open for entries which must be in the respective country's language.