Great article from Chris McMullen about the new Kindle Unlimited Program at Amazon. Thanks for your thorough review, Chris!
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KINDLE UNLIMITED
Toward the end of July, 2014, Amazon introduced a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, which allows customers to read unlimited books for $9.99 (US price) per month.
- This includes 100,000 traditionally published books in addition to 600,000 KDP Select books.
- Most of the traditionally published books are from smaller publishers, but include some popular books such as Harry Potter.
- Customers can borrow up to 10 different books at a time (whereas Amazon Prime allows just one borrow per month).
- Kindle Unlimited only pays a royalty when a customer reaches 10% of the book’s length.
- All Kindle Unlimited downloads affect sales rank, regardless of whether or not the customer reaches the 10% mark.
- Royalties for Kindle Unlimited borrows have been as low as $1.30, down considerably from around $2 prior to Kindle Unlimited.
- Many books receive numerous Kindle Unlimited borrows, while borrows were…
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The Linden Chronicles 
Happy 2015! Thank you for being you, and for your great books!
Best wishes
Inese
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Thanks so much, Inese! Thank you for taking such wonderful pictures and for being my friend. Here’s to a great 2015 for all of us! Take care and Happy New Year:)
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Thank you for your kind words!
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My pleasure! Take care 🙂
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Love the new header, very scary 🙂
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Thank you Andrea!! Wanted to get the word out that the audiobook is in the works! The voice we chose is really good! I can’t wait to hear the rest of the audio!!! Thanks for noticing the scariness!! 🙂
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I have not opted to try KU because I don’t ant to restrict distribution – the all eggs in one basket idea. The jury is a long way from coming in on the benefits or drawbacks of it.
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Agree…too soon to tell what the ramifications are for the author. Will have to wait and see what falls out after a year or so. Have a great weekend Yvonne!
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