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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Category: Kindle (platform)
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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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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Here’s How Kindle’s New Read/Unread Setting Works
When Amazon announced the new Kindle a few weeks back, one of the features mentioned in the footnotes was that the new device would have the option to filter...
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Alexa Can Now Manage (Some of) Your Audible and Kindle Content
Amazon recently updated the Manage Your Content and Devices page on Amazon.com with a new notice that reads "Using Alexa, you can now send ebooks, audiobooks, personal documents, etc.,...
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Four Chrome Extensions for Getting the Most Out of Kindle Cloud Reader
When was the last time you used Amazon's cloud reading app? Did you know there were third-party extensions for it? I was updating the Kindle tools posts a few...
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Amazon Removes Category Strings From Book Listings
Did you notice there's something missing from book listings? Amazon is no longer listing parent categories in the sales rank section on book listings. They have removed the long...
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Thousands of eBooks Have Disappeared from Amazon.com – Were Your eBooks Hit Too?
I am about to give a few thousand authors a really terrible morning. Numerous authors are reporting. both on Facebook and in private discussions, that their ebooks have disappeared...
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Amazon Now Offers New Kindle Unlimited Users a Two Month Subscription for $0.99
Amazon is running a special right now in Kindle Unlimited. They're recruiting new subscribers by offering two months of Kindle Unlimited at a 95% discount. The offer is not...
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How to Remove Old Kindles and Kindle Apps From Your Account on Amazon
In the nine years I have published this blog, I have tested dozens Kindles and mobile devices. While that was a lot of fun, it also caused a huge...
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How to Delete eBooks from Your Kindle Account on Amazon.com
As you may know, for the past seven years or so I have shared my Kindle account with my mother. She is a voracious reader who is on the...
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A Dozen Tools for Managing Your Kindle Notes and Highlights
Amazon's Kindle is a great reading platform with a number of useful annotation features, but sometimes it's not enough. I recently updated my four-year-old post on Kindle annotation tools, and...
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Kindle Unlimited Per Page Rose in February 2019 as the Funding Pool Shrank
Amazon informed authors on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool shrank in February. It totaled $23.5 million, down from $24.7 million in January 2019. At the same time...
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How to Download Your Kindle Notes and Highlights and Export Them (Updated for 2018)
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...
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Amazon Launches New eBook Quality Dashboard in KDP
So as you may know, I used KDP to list a couple of my workbooks in the Kindle Store last fall. I wasn't expecting to sell a lot, and...
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