Amazon alleges Rubio approached KDP authors with a scheme to "use a multitude of Amazon accounts to artificially inflate the author’s numbers," in exchange for a kick-back of 40% of the revenue.

When an author enrolls in KDP Select, they have to allow Amazon to have exclusive rights for a three month period. When people borrow their ebooks for free on Prime, they are given a cut of the ...

Amazon has announced a new initiative called KDP Select, which will give self-published authors a share of a $500,000 per month fund that Amazon is providing through at least the end of next year ...

SEATTLE-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon.com, Inc. today announced KDP Select, a new option featuring a $6 million annual fund dedicated to independent authors and publishers.

Amazon has announced KDP Select, a program that will use a new funding scheme to compensate authors who make their e-books exclusive to Amazon Kindle for at least 90 days.

In its FAQ, Amazon says it “expect [s] the total KDP Kindle Owners’ Lending Library fund will be at least $6 million for all of 2012,” and “The size of the fund is determined to make ...

Amazon's KDP Select now lets indies enroll Kindle books as free on Prime: Some see opportunity, others say monopoly. Written by Violet Blue, Contributor Dec. 12, 2011, 9:31 a.m. PT ...

Amazon.com doesn't traditionally disclose a lot of numbers when it comes to the Kindle, but the company is getting specific today to make the case that independent authors who commit to publish ...

Amazon sets aside a pot of money every month that it divvies up among KDP Select authors, based on how many of their pages have been read each month by Kindle Unlimited subscribers and readers ...

Both the Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited divide a monthly pool of cash ($10.8 million last month) to KDP Select authors. The difference now is that the money will be parsed out based on how ...