At the end of every month, Amazon sets aside a pot of money (recently around 17 million dollars), called the KDP Global Fund, to be paid out to authors whose titles are enrolled in KU. The payout for pages read has been around just under 1/2 a cent per page ($0.00488 per page to be exact) for over a year now. Authors whose titles are part of the Kindle Unlimited library are not paid by “purchase” or by “download”, instead they are paid by the total number of pages read in any given month. That means the title cannot be available for purchase on any other retailer (Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo etc). In order to be included in the KU Library, authors must exclusively publish their title on Amazon through KDP Select. A KU subscription also includes access to many popular magazines, as well as access to the audiobook versions of many titles in the library. Readers who subscribe to KU can read an unlimited number of titles from the KU library, for just $9.99 month. Kindle Unlimited (or KU) is a subscription service that Amazon launched in July of 2014 (think Netflix for books). We decided to take another look at the current state of kindle unlimited royalties and conjecture on what is to come. The program is still going strong, and Amazon is continuing to market Kindle Unlimited heavily around the Kindle store. Last year we took a look at Kindle Unlimited and what it means for authors and publishers.
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