Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate, Funding Pool Rose in September 2020
Kindle Unlimited maintained its position as one of the top five ebookstores in September 2020, paying out $32.7 million and bringing the total paid out over...Continue reading
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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.
Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers)
Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales”...Continue reading
Kindle Create Now Outputs POD Book Files
Amazon just took another step towards complete dominance of the book market supply chain. The retailer could already handle everything from production to the retail sale,...Continue reading
Audible Launches Netflix-Style Audiobook Services in Spain and Italy
Just under a month ago Amazon launched a limited “all you can listen” service in the US called Audible Plus. It cost $8 per month and...Continue reading
Amazon Rebrands Amazon Freetime Unlimited as Amazon Kids+
Amazon’s kid-centric subscription service is old enough that its earliest users are now attending college. And just like empty-nesters who remodel a kid’s old room into...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool, Per-Page Rate Rose in August 2020
Amazon announced on Tuesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool for August 2020 totaled $32.6 million, up two hundred grand from July. At the same, the royalty...Continue reading
Audible Escape is Being Shut Down on 1 November
Audible sent out an email on Tuesday, informing authors and users that it was shutting down Audible Escape subscription service. (Thanks, Isobel!) Here’s the email that...Continue reading
Amazon Launches “Book Clubs” in Beta, But Forgets to Add Any Discussion Features
I’ve just learned about an Amazon feature that, while not exactly new, is still relatively unknown and has not been officially launched. I was browsing Dale...Continue reading
Amazon Has Retired KindleGen
I was just catching up with the #ePrdctn tag over on Twitter when I read that Amazon has removed the KindleGen ebook-creation tool from its website....Continue reading
How to Limit Data Tracking on Your Kindle eReader and Fire Tablet
I helped a reader enable the privacy settings on their Kindle ereader today, and I thought it would be useful to share what we did. I...Continue reading
Amazon Releases a Firmware Update for the Kindle Paperwhite 3, and Other Models
Amazon just saved me around $100 with their latest Kindle update. The ebook giant just released the v5.13.2 Kindle update, and it works on all Kindles...Continue reading
How to Send Web Content Directly to Your Kindle (Updated for 2020)
We all spend a lot of time reading in our web browsers, but sometimes you want to finish reading a particularly long article in Evernote, Kindle, or...Continue reading
Amazon Has Weeded the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library
Originally launched under the name Amazon Prime eBooks in late 2011, the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library was Amazon’s first foray into ebook subscriptions. It was only...Continue reading
The Usual Book Publishing Industry Players Ask Congress to Bell the Cat
It’s hard to beleive that it’s been, what, 5 years since we last played this game, but the US book publishing industry is back to its...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew Slightly in July 2020
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew by $100,000 in July 2020, to $32.4 million. The per-page rate, on the other hand,...Continue reading