Amazon held steady on the Kindle Unlimited KENP royalty payout to authors for November 2015 with a rate of $0.0049 per page read after a balancing act which saw payments in markets such as India set at lower levels for the first time.
Roger Packer
How ebooks can help young people become confident and keen readers
Ebooks have a big role to play in helping young people become keener and more confident readers.
Pay-per-page is paying off for many Kindle Unlimited authors
Ebook promotion site The Fussy Librarian says some authors and publishers are seeing big increases in total royalties since the Kindle Unlimited switch to pay-per-page.
Flipkart flips ebook business to Kobo
Flipkart, one of the giants of e-commerce in India, has quit the ebook business and is transferring its customers to Kobo.
Countdown to self-publishing for Christmas
Many of the ebook retailers and distributors will be shutting over the Christmas and New Year period, so self-published authors need to act fast to publish before the holiday shutdown.
Kobo’s Top 10 ebook bestsellers of 2015 are all written by women
Kobo's best-selling Top 10 ebooks of the year in the UK are all by women authors and almost all are in the thriller/crime genre.
Ebook distributors widen worldwide sales channels
Ebook distributors Draft2digital and Smashwords are both adding new channels to their worldwide networks.
Kindle Unlimited KENP payout for October falls by 4% to $0.0048
The Kindle Unlimited pay-per-page royalty to authors for October fell by 4% to $0.0048 per KENP (Kindle Edition Normalized Page) from $0.0050 in September.
Sony RX100 IV — pocket-sized photo power plus 4k video
The battle of quality compact cameras has hotted up in recent years and Sony has added to the fray with possibly the most powerful and versatile all-round compact camera on the market --- the Sony RX100 IV.
$5k new poets’ prize reveals Amazon Publishing imprint royalty deal
A contest being run to find emerging poets has revealed some of the usually closely guarded details offered to authors by Amazon Publishing imprints.
Amazon’s bookshop is reverse-showroomed but the price is high
An interesting challenge was flung down by Seattle Review of Books co-founder Paul Constant, who offered a gift certificate to the first person who showroomed Amazon's new bricks and mortar bookshop which opened in Seattle recently.