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December 9, 2011By Michael Cader

More On the KDP Select Fund

December 9, 2011By Michael Cader

We have an update related to our point yesterday that the cash pool Amazon is paying out to KDP authors who make their ebooks exclusive to Amazon and elect to make titles available for borrowing through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is determined at Amazon’s discretion. Spokesperson Sarah Gelman tells us that “KDP will announce each month’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library fund amount by the 25th of the preceding month. The announcement will be emailed to participating authors and publishers and posted on the KDP website.” As Amazon now says on their site, in a FAQ about the program, “the […]

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