

The KENPC pay rate changes every month depending on the KDP Select Global Fund and the number of enrolled books. A 50,000-word ebook will have a KENPC of about 250 pages. In Kindle, your book’s pages are based on the word count. KDP Select uses a payout system called KENPC or Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count. How Do Authors Get Paid on Kindle Unlimited? This means you can’t list your book anywhere else, including other stores, blogs, websites, and beyond – not even if you have your own direct sales site.

Once your book is uploaded, you choose enrollment in the KDP Select program (the real name for KU in Amazon’s publishing platform.) Opting in gives Amazon exclusive rights to sell your book for the each 90 day term you’re enrolled. How Does Kindle Unlimited Work for Authors?įrom the publishing side, authors can publish to KU for free, using the platform Kindle Direct Publishing. There are more than 150 million subscribers who have access to more than 1 million titles. Kindle Unlimited is “the Netflix of books,” where readers subscribe to a library of ebooks and borrow up to 10 titles at a time. It comes down to your goals, preferences, the genre you write in, and more. If you’re on any author forums, you’ve probably seen this conversation play out. The alternative is to publish wide on all other retailers like Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and more.Įither side can argue that one is the better choice. This means you can’t sell your book anywhere else outside of KU for the first 90 days. However, publishing on Kindle Unlimited requires exclusivity.

What’s the deal? Before diving in, here’s what you need to know: Amazon is the largest retailer of self-published books.
