Amazon Publishing vice president Jeff Belle reported in his September 2014 update letter that in the US, In the US, “Amazon Publishing now ranks as the #2 publisher on the Kindle platform, based on paid copies (this means royalty-generating copies, and includes books sold a la carte, or through programs such as Kindle Unlimited or the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library).” Presumably that means only Penguin Random House sells more ebooks through the Kindle store. (Note carefully this applies to ebooks only.) Kindle Unlimited likely plays a strong role in those counts. As we have shown through multiple analyses of the Kindle […]