How Much Do KDP Select Borrows Pay?
With the introduction of Kindle Unlimited (read more about Kindle Unlimited by clicking here), many authors are wondering how much Amazon will pay for each qualifying download (i.e. where the customer passes the 10% mark).
Although that’s a complicated question (since customers can download several books through Kindle Unlimited, whereas Amazon Prime customers were only able to read one free KDP Select book per month), we do have data for KDP Select going back to the launch of the program in December 2011.
So I went through my KDP monthly royalty reports for 2011, 2012, 2013, and thru June of 2014 to tabulate the KOLL per-borrow payments by month.
You can see this displayed graphically above. Below, you will find the data in a table.
Notes regarding KDP Select with Amazon Prime:
- The lowest KOLL payments were December, 2011 ($1.70) and…
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