Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $24.6 million, from $24.1 million in April 2019. At the same time the per-page rate royalty dipped ...
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This retailer possesses a reputation to fit its name. It’s the single largest bookseller in the US, and is responsible for driving most ebook sales as well, while at the same time it is developing a wide variety of tech products, including Fire tablets, the Fire TV, Alexa digital assistant, and more.
Audible Renames Audible Romance Package as “Audible Escape”
Audible launched its Netflix-style subscription service in late 2017, the focus was strictly on romance audiobooks. Now it is beginning to look like Audible will be expanding the program...
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Kindle Oasis, Paperwhite, and Kindle (2019) On Sale for Father’s Day
Amazon has put their hardware on sale for Father's Day, and this time around they are including the Kindle Oasis. All three Kindle models are on sale, with the...
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Kindle Paperwhite 4 On Sale For $89, Refurbished
The 2018 Kindle Paperwhite is on sale again as a refurb. The refurb had previously been selling for $119, but now Amazon has marked it down to $89, and...
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Amazon Adds New Filter Option in Kindle Firmware Update 5.11.2
Amazon rolled out an update for its Kindle ereaders on Friday. A few months ago Amazon gave you the option of sorting your library by read/unread, and now you...
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Amazon Launches Worldwide Full-Language Support for Traditional Chinese in Kindle eBooks
Amazon first started selling Chinese-language Kindle ebooks in 2012, but only in China. Chinese expats or foreign-language learners either had to find another source or use a VPN, but...
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KDP Reports Dashboard Now Has a Royalties Estimator
I have just heard via the 20Booksto50K group on Facebook that Amazon has added a new royalty estimator to the KDP Reports dashboard that launched last November. I have...
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Omen All Day: Amazon to Launch a Pop-Up “Good Omens”-Themed Bookstore in London
When it comes to promoting its adaptation of Terry Pratchett's and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens, Amazon is pulling out all the stops. The retailer is going to open...
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FictFact is Shutting Down
A reader has tipped me to the news that the FictFact service has shut down. (Thanks, Eric!) The company sent the following notice to users: We recently lost our...
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New Kindle Fire Tablet Has a Faster CPU, Twice the Storage
That mysterious Amazon tablet that showed up on the FCC website last week now has a name, a price, and a ship date. On Thursday Amazon announced a new...
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Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate, Funding Pool Rose in April 2019
Amazon announced on Wednesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew by $100,000 in April 2019, to $24.1 million. At the same time the per-page rate royalty was...
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Guest Post: Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite
Amazon is shrinking time and eating up the planet. Once a small online book retailer, in 2018 it took over Whole Foods Market, a leading US organic grocery chain. That’s...
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Does Amazon France Really Destroy Millions of Products? Yes, But –
There's a story breaking this morning about Amazon destroying "millions of new items it can’t sell". While there is some truth to the story, Amazon's actions are being taken...
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Kindle Unlimited, Now With Limits
I was browsing MobileRead this morning when I read that earlier this week a Kindle Unlimited user in Australia has had their KU subscription suspended until the end of the...
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New Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet Clears the FCC
A device that is almost certainly belongs to Amazon cleared the FCC earlier this week. I can't really tell you much about the device because the specs have been...
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