Kindle Lending Library: € 1.74 income per pound - Actualitté.com

Beginning in December 2012, Amazon France had told us that his free loan service of books, for customers with a premium account was concurrent launch of the tablet, the Kindle Fire. Very well. A catalog of 4000 digital titles in French, for a set of 200,000 titles, it was all well and good. But for every borrowed book, the author receives compensation. Interesting.

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For comparison, always in December, Amazon announced that for the U.S. holiday season, a bonus of $ 1.5 million was awarded to the authors of the present works independent Kindle platform Lending Library. This is because the service has not yet received the favor of large publishing houses, a bit wary about the functioning of this offer.

However, just across the Atlantic, Amazon had to seek independent authors, and, in France, a fund is being set up to give these writers want to offer them in the title loan service . Overseas, the amount allocated was $ 6 million.

Amazon France could not, at this time, contact us amount in December 2012: “ This is an argument for independent authors, but also a way to interest publishers for this job. Our range of content needs to be developed. “

Well, we now have an idea of ??what this famous kitty: always with the idea of ??making gringue self-published authors, Amazon just to remind them that the Kindle Direct Publishing program – the platform for marketing self-publishing – provides access to a service registration Kindle lending library.

that Amazon says in a newsletter.

In July, the amount of KDP Select global fund amounted to € 750,000. During the month of June, the authors enrolled in KDP Select won € 1.74 each loan their books.

for each registration 90 days period KDP Select, you can also promote your book for free at most 5 days. Finally, you can earn a 70% fee for your sales in Japan, Brazil and India.

notice for those who wish comparison: for a paper book sold 20 €, an author earns between 1.6 and 2.4 €

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