Amazon's KDP Select now lets indies enroll Kindle books as free on Prime: Some see opportunity, others say monopoly.

Amazon is celebrating its first calender year of the Kindle Direct Publishing Select program. This allows authors to tap into an ever growing pool of money when people borrow ebooks for free with ...

Once a title is listed under Select, however, it is eligible for some promotional tools and the lending program, a feature that can actually result in higher royalties for the author every time ...

The most powerful of these tools resides in a program called KDP (for Kindle Direct Publishing) Select, and it requires the author to provide Amazon eBook exclusivity for ninety days. When that is ...

When Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN - News) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. Just four days ago, Amazon gave self-published ...

(NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon.com, Inc. today announced KDP Select, a new option featuring a $6 million annual fund dedicated to independent authors and publ ...

The new royalty system only applies to KDP Select authors, who have their books offered on both the Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited as part of the program.

Amazon this morning announced that it has set up a $6 million annual fund dedicated to independent authors and publishers. Dubbed KDP Select, the fund aims to let indie authors and publishers ...

Britt Andrews published her first novel on KDP Select, which made it available to subscribers of Kindle Unlimited, after she was furloughed because of COVID-19.

Optionally, KDP Kids authors can also enroll in KDP Select which allows them to earn royalties through Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. They would then also have the ...

Amazon has announced a new initiative called KDP Select, which will give self-published authors a share of a $500,000 per month fund that Amazon is providing through at least the end of next year ...