KOLL SEPTEMBER, 2014
Kindle Unlimited paid $1.52 per download read to 10% in September, 2014.
This is nearly the same as August, 2014, which was $1.54.
Both are down significantly from $1.81 for July, 2014 (which was a partial month of Kindle Unlimited), and are down from the usual $2 or more from the Amazon Prime days (but customers can only borrow one book per month through Prime).
To me, the big number is $2,000,000. KDP started the KOLL global fund at $3,000,000 for September, and added another $2,000,000 to prevent KOLL from paying less than $1.50 per borrow.
This shows two things: (1) Amazon doesn’t want the KOLL payment to drop too low and (2) Kindle Unlimited is still very active. The second point shows that there is a significant Kindle Unlimited market presently.
Books with list prices of $2.99 or more draw a greater royalty through sales, but…
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