Amazon ceo Jeff Bezos released his annual shareholder letter on Wednesday, revealing for the first time that has more than 100 million paid Prime members globally. In another, less widely-reported statistic, Bezos wrote that over 1,000 Kindle Direct Publishing authors earned over $100,000 in royalties in 2017 (thus comprising over $100 million). Beyond that, third-party sellers accounted for more than half of the units sold on Amazon worldwide for the first time — and over 140,000 small and medium-sized businesses (thus comprising over $14 billion). Among other things, in reviewing the pipeline for television series on the way through Prime […]
