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
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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, Per-Page Rate Rose in November 2020
Kindle Unlimited grew at a healthy clip in November 2020. The funding pool grew by $300,000, while the per-page rate increased by a hundredth of a cent. Here are the...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
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 the past 12 months...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 paid for each page...Continue reading
Publishers Dismayed By 25% Increase in eBook Revenues in July 2020
Woe is me, cried the publisher! The Association of American Publishers announced on Wednesday that publisher revenue was down 9.4% for the month of July, and down 5.8% year to...Continue reading
NPD: Trade-Published Romance US eBook Sales Up Over 2019
Romance has increasingly gone indie over the past decade as more authors discovered they can reach readers without having to go through a publisher. As a result, trade publishers such...Continue reading
NPD: Publisher eBook Unit Sales Rose in April 2020
Earlier this week NPD confirmed what the AAP had lead us to expect (and many had assumed would happen): publisher ebook sales rose in the US in April compared to...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew by $2 Million in January 2020
Judging by the Kindle Unlimited stats for January, Amazon saw a huge jump in reading activity last month. Last week the retailer announced that the KDP Select funding pool totaled...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Jumped in November 2019
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by one hundred thousand dollars in November 2019, to $26.1 million, from $26 million in October 2019. At the...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in October 2019
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by one hundred thousand dollars in October 2019, to $26 million, from $25.9 million in September 2019. At the...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Skyrocketed in September 2019
Amazon announced on Tuesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by one hundred thousand dollars in September 2019, to $25.9 million, from $25.8 million in August 2019. At the...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Fell in August 2019 While the Funding Pool Grew
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by two hundred thousand dollars in August 2019, to $25.8 million, from $25.6 million in July. At the same...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in July 2019
Amazon announced on Thursday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by seven hundred thousand dollars in July 2019, to $25.6 million, from $24.9 million in June. At the same...Continue reading