Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Drop by $1 Million in February 2017 as
Remember how the Kindle Unlimited funding pool dipped in February in 2015 and 2016?
It happened again.
The KU funding pool dropped to $16.8 million in February 2017, a decrease of a million dollars from January. At the same time, the per-page rate increased slightly, to just under half a cent per page (0.49741 cents, to be precise).
- US: $0.0050 (USD)
- Germany: €0.0034 (EUR)
- UK: £0.0037 (GBP)
- France, Spain, Italy: €0.0049 (EUR)
- Netherlands: €0.0045 (EUR)
- Brazil: R$ 0.01203 (BRL)
- Japan: 0.5170 (JPY)
- Australia, India, Mexico, Canada: no data
P.S. Here’s a list of the monthly funding pools. It does not include the bonuses paid out each month.
- July 2014: $2.5 million (Kindle Unlimited launches early in the month)
- August 2014: $4.7 million
- September 2014: $5 million
- October 2014: $5.5 million
- November 2014: $6.5 million
- December 2014: $7.25 million
- January 2015 – $8.5 million
- February 2015: $8 million
- March 2015: $9.3 million
- April 2015: $9.8 million
- May 2015: $10.8 million
- June 2015: $11.3 million
- July 2015: $11.5 million
- August 2015: $11.8 million
- September 2015: $12 million
- October 2015: $12.4 million
- November 2015: $12.7 million
- December 2015: $13.5 million
- January 2016: $15 million
- February 2016: $14 million
- March 2016: $14.9 million
- April 2016: $14.9 million
- May 2016: $15.3 million
- June 2016: $15.4 million
- July 2016: $15.5 million
- August 2016: $15.8 million
- September 2016: $15.9 million
- October 2016: $16.2 million
- November 2016: $16.3 million
- December 2016: $16.8 million
- January 2017: : $17.8 million
- February 2017: : $16.8 million
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Comments
Lemondrop March 16, 2017 um 8:38 am
>>The KU funding pool dropped to $16.8 million in February 2017, a decrease of a million dollars from January. At the same time, the per-page rate increased slightly, to just under half a cent per page (0.49741 cents, to be precise).
So there were less readers yet authors earned more? That would suggest there were less authors subscribed to KU.
Remington Kane March 16, 2017 um 10:30 am
There are less days in February, thus less money needed.
Nate Hoffelder March 16, 2017 um 10:36 am
Also, January usually has an excess of trial subscriptions.
Hannah Steenbock March 21, 2017 um 6:08 am
Huh. Germany really gets hit. 34ct isn’t fair.
I’m taking my book out of KU, only giving new releases those 90 days. With luck, I’ll find new readers trough the Tolino.
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