Amazon announced on Thursday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.5 million (plus bonuses)in October 2018 , up from $23.4 million in September 2018. At the same time...
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Amazon Launches a New Reports Site for Authors – KDP Reports
Word is circulating through KBoards and Facebook today that Amazon is testing a new site where authors can track their sales data. It's called KDP Reports, and looks something...
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Amazon is Inexplicably Destroying Indie Author Careers By Randomly Removing eBooks From the Kindle Store
When I reported two weeks ago that due to a bug ebooks were being automatically removed from sale in the Kindle Store, I used a "don't panic" graphic. I...
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A Mysterious Amazon Bug is Inexplicably Removing Kindle eBooks From Sale
Amazon's Kindle platform is fraught with bugs and inexplicable behavior. When it's not blocking ARC reviews, it's ignoring the final version of an ebook and instead sending out a...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in August 2018 While the Per-Page Rate Didn’t Change
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.3 million in August (plus bonuses), up from $23.1 million in July 2018. At the same time the...
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Amazon is Merging Createspace Into KDP Print
I called it. Amazon has just taken the step that I am sure many saw coming. A new notice has been posted to Createspace user dashboards, informing them that...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in July 2018 While the Per-Page Rate Fell
Amazon announced on Wednesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.1 million in July (plus bonuses), up from $22.6 million in June 2018. At the same time the per-page...
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Kindle for Android Updated With Support for Split-Screen Mode
Amazon rolled out a new update to its Kindle Android app today. They're finally adding split-screen support, and they announced a new feature. First, anyone with a device running Android 7.0...
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Kindle Unlimited Reporting is Down
If you are an author with zero page views in Kindle Unlimited, you can put down the absinthe - -it's not just you. Dozens of authors on KBoards and...
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Amazon (Officially) Launches Support for Arabic-Language eBooks on Kindle
Amazon officially launched support for Arabic-language ebooks today. Said ebooks could be read on the Kindle since early this month, and were available in the Kindle Store since last...
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Kindle for PC 1.24 Adds New Study Features
Amazon just started pushing out a new update. I am still waiting for it to install, but I am told that the update will make the app more useful...
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Amazon Kindle Android App Gains Audible Sort, Book Returns
The Kindle app for Android got an update last week about the same time as the iOS app. Weirdly enough, the apps did not get the same features in...
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Amazon Kindle App for iOS Gains New Magazine Format Courtesy of KFX eBook Format
Amazon has wrapped a number of file formats around the magazines it has sold on the Kindle platform over the past ten plus years. The original magazine format was...
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Amazon KFX Format Updated With Support for MathML
Yesterday's changelog for the Kindle for PC update mentioned that you could use the app to zoom in on math equations, and now we know why. Amazon released a...
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Prime Reading Launches in China
Amazon China announced on Tuesday that it will launch Prime Reading in China.Amazon Prime members in China can now enjoy unlimited access to more than 500 Kindle titles, including several best-sellers...
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