The CEO of the world’s biggest book publisher Penguin Random House, Tom Weldon, says the company won’t be taking part in ebook subscription services, which also rules out Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited library.
The payout for authors from Kindle Unlimited slumped to $1.33 per borrow in October from $1.51 in September, despite Amazon adding $2.5 million to the KDP Select Fund which had been set at $3 million for the month.
Amazon's Kindle Voyage ereader is very sharp, very light and very classy, it's also very expensive for an ereader. Is it worth the premium price? My hands-on review gets on board for the Voyage.
A new report from best-selling author Hugh Howey's Author Earnings' survey suggests Amazon's ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited has brought a major shake-up in the market and KU authors are making an average of 13% more money per title on Kindle than non-KU authors.
Amazon have yet again topped up the monthly KDP Select Global Fund, with September's total fund ending up at a new high of $5 million after $2 million was added this week to the $3 million originally set, but the payout rate for authors on Kindle Unlimited has fallen slightly to $1.51 per borrow.
Amazon have sounded the bugle call for their new 'reader-powered' publishing program which is now officially open for submissions and will be called Kindle Scout.
Amazon is set to open up its first store on West 34th Street in Midtown New York.
Amazon have released details about their new publishing program for writers which aims to publish new books which get the most votes online. The Authors-Got-Talent-type set-up is looking for books of at least 50,000 words in any of the genres of Romance, Mystery & Thriller, and Science Fiction & Fantasy.
If you're an author/publisher with books published on Kindle, some of you might have seen the new Kindle Direct Publishing Terms and Conditions popping up when you try to log in to your account. For many people, the small print is too tedious to wade through, so they tick the box and forget about them. But what are you letting yourself in for?
It's a busy book business day for the UK, first, Kindle Unlimited opens for lending, and now the giant of email book marketing, BookBub, is expanding to cover British readers.
Amazon's Kindle Unlimited ebook borrowing service has opened up in the UK, earlier than many commentators had anticipated after its July launch in the US and almost a third more expensive than in the US.