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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 is not saying how many KDP Select pages are read on average per month. And the KDP Select royalties fund is also a moveable feast — with Amazon setting its level each month (it’s $3 ...

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 ...