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 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.

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 ...

Amazon is quietly approaching authors who self-publish under Kindle Direct Publishing for a new program that will kick-start a book and potentially earn a new publishing contract with Amazon ...

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 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.

Until yesterday, authors who self-published through Amazon’s KDP Select Program received royalties each month based on the number of times their e-Books were borrowed through Kindle Unlimited, a ...

Amazon announced this afternoon that it will be expanding its Kindle Direct Publishing business to support the needs of children’s books authors through a new program it’s calling “ KDP Kids.” ...

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 ...