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KDP Select
The whole world of self-publishing has been abuzz about the KDP Select program since it was first introduced, but never more so than since they introduced Kindle Unlimited.
Originally, the KDP Select program only had a couple of benefits. It allowed you to run up to 5 days of free promotions or discount prices per 90-day period, and it allowed you to get paid some money whenever an Amazon Prime member borrowed your book with their one free book credit each month. This didn’t translate to a lot of revenue, and you could run a free promotion by simply pricing the book free at another store (such as Barnes & Noble or Kobo) and asking Amazon to price match.
The only real drawback was the fact that you had to be exclusive to Amazon for 90-day periods (you could withdraw your book at the end of the 90-day term if you chose to do so). This meant you couldn’t put your book onto any of the other online stores, but since Amazon was, by far, the most popular eBook store, it was worth it to some.
In the summer of 2014, Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited. For a price of about $10 per month, readers could borrow up to 10 titles at once, and an unlimited number total in a month. Authors were paid a percentage of the base fund. As long as the borrower read at least 10% of the book, the author would get paid for that borrow. The amount the borrow was worth varied based on the total number of books borrowed that month, and each borrow was worth a percentage of the total fund Amazon allocated for borrows that month.
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