Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Royalty & Funding Pool Both Rose in October 2016
The retailer formerly know as Amazon revealed on Tuesday that the funding pool for Kindle Unlimited and KDP Select increased in October 2016, to $16.2 million. That is a bump of $300,000 over September 2016.
I only have limited data for this month, but I can report that the royalty rate rose in both the US and Germany ($ .005189 and € 0.00358, respectively).
- US: $0.0052 (USD)
- Germany: €0.0036 (EUR)
- France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Brazil, UK, Mexico, Australia, India, Japan, Canada: no data
I don’t have info on other markets at this time.
P.S. Here’s a list of the monthly funding pools. It does not include the bonuses paid out each month.
- May 2014: $1.2 million
- June 2014: $1.2 million
- July 2014: $2.5 million (Kindle Unlimited launches early in the month)
- August 2014: $4.7 million
- September 2014: $5 million
- October 2014: $5.5 million
- November 2014: $6.5 million
- December 2014: $7.25 million
- January 2015 – $8.5 million
- February 2015: $8 million
- March 2015: $9.3 million
- April 2015: $9.8 million
- May 2015: $10.8 million
- June 2015: $11.3 million
- July 2015: $11.5 million
- August 2015: $11.8 million
- September 2015: $12 million
- October 2015: $12.4 million
- November 2015: $12.7 million
- December 2015: $13.5 million
- January 2016: $15 million
- February 2016: $14 million
- March 2016: $14.9 million
- April 2016: $14.9 million
- May 2016: $15.3 million
- June 2016: $15.4 million
- July 2016: $15.5 million
- August 2016: $15.8 million
- September 2016: $15.9 million
- October 2016: $16.2 million
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Comments
Frank November 17, 2016 um 9:33 am
It is nice for writers that the pay pool keeps going up.