It’s finally happened. Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and...Continue reading
Category: Kindle (platform)
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in January 2021 as the Per-Page Rate Drops
Kindle Unlimited saw a huge jump in usage during the first month of the year. The funding pool grew by $2 million compared to December 2020. The new total is...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Fell While the Funding Pool Grew in December 2020
Kindle Unlimited grew at a healthy clip in the last month of 2020. The funding pool grew by $800,000 over November 2020. The new total is $34 million, or about...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose by $300K in October 2020
Kindle Unlimited maintained its position in October 2020 of being the market that all of Amazon’s competitors (with the possible exception of Apple) wished they owned. The KU funding pool...Continue reading
Build and Manage Series Pages in the Kindle Store
For a number of years now Amazon has been making series pages for Kindle ebooks. One of their bots would identify all of the books in a particular series, and...Continue reading
Amazon is Killing Kindle Owner’s Lending Library on 4 January
When I reported several months ago that Amazon had shut down the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library, several commenters argued I was wrong because they knew a loophole (find a book...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. Amazon has discontinued KindleGen....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 another platform where you...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 available to Amazon Prime...Continue reading
Has Amazon Killed the Offline Mode for the Kindle Cloud Reader?
A little under 9 years ago Amazon launched a version of the Kindle app that lived in your web browser. It is called Kindle Cloud Reader, and can be found...Continue reading
Amazon Removes Active Content Section of the Kindle Store
I was just reading over at MobileRead that Amazon has finally removed the Active Content section of the Kindle Store. AC is the clunky name that Amazon gave to the...Continue reading
How to Download Your Kindle Notes and Highlights and Export Them (Updated for 2020)
Amazon has a great reading platform in the Kindle, but sometimes it’s not enough. Sometimes I need to take the notes I make in a Kindle ebook and use them...Continue reading
When Did Amazon Start Demanding That You Verify Your eBooks Before They Get Converted and Sent to Your Kindle?
Amazon’s free conversion service has been one of Kindle’s killer features ever since the Kindle launched in 2007. I have used it countless times over the years, but lately I...Continue reading
KDP Print Expands to Canada
Amazon’s POD service has expanded into the land of moose and snow. The retailer announced in the KDP support forums last week that KDP Print could now print and distribute...Continue reading
Kindle Firmware Update 5.12.2
Back in July Amazon released a firmware update that added a “read now” feature to the before you go section found in the back of Kindle ebooks. Now they are...Continue reading