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Wow! Big Bonuses Announced for Top KDP Select Authors

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KDP Select All-Stars

Today, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) announced special bonus payments to be made to KDP Select All-Stars.

For August, KDP Select All-Stars include:

  • the top 100 KDP Select most-read authors
  • the top 100 KDP Select most-read books

Most-read includes both sales and qualified borrows/downloads through Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited.

  • Author bonuses range from $1,000 to $25,000.
  • Book bonuses range from $500 to $2500.

I think it’s pretty cool. It gives authors an added incentive to strive to breakthrough to the top 100.

You don’t have to be the top 100 in books or the top 100 in Kindle, just the top 100 in KDP Select. That’s still very competitive though.

By the way, regarding the August, 2014 KOLL payment of $1.54, an extra $2.7 million was added to the KDP Select Global Fund (i.e. on top of the original $2 million) to make this happen.

So Amazon…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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