In the genres I write in, it’s almost all of them. If you’re curious, g o take a look at those Top 100 lists and see how many books have that “Kindle Unlimited” tag on them. You have to get let’s say 200 sales a day to rank in the Top 20 for your genre whereas the author who is enrolled can get 100 sales and 100 borrows, or no sales and all borrows, and achieve the same position–gain the same visibility. What may be less obvious is that it’s now a huge disadvantage on Amazon if you launch a new book and it’s NOT enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. Putting aside how much they make from borrows of books (payment is on a per-page-read calculation and, for all but very long and very inexpensive books, is less than an author would make from a sale), the authors are more likely to have their books seen by readers in their target audience.
Thus, it’s a clear benefit to authors to have their books in Kindle Unlimited. how many people (potential new readers) have a chance of seeing it when they’re browsing the Top 100 lists in their favorite genres. It feels like those books are free.Īnd yet Amazon weighs borrows the same as sales in determining sales rank.Īnd sales rank determines how visible your book is in the store, i.e. Yes, you pay $10 a month for the service, but that money gets automatically sucked out of your account every month before you even notice. When you’re a KU subscriber, you essentially get any books in the program for free with your subscription. I’ll pause for a moment so you can debate whether that actually makes sense. So, why do some authors go along with this?Īs I write this in May of 2019, each borrow through Kindle Unlimited counts as a sale in regard to determining sales ranking and overall visibility in the Amazon Kindle store. For as long as it’s enrolled there, you are forbidden (yes, they enforce it) from selling the books on other stores or even your own website. Especially since I always forget how to do the darned hard returns (SHIFT + ENTER, in case you also didn’t know or keep forgetting) there.Īmazon requires authors to make their books EXCLUSIVE to their store in order for them to be enrolled in “KDP Select.”Īmong other things, checking the KDP Select box puts your book into the Kindle Unlimited subscription program. It’s hard to get all the points across in a response to someone’s Facebook comment. I wanted a place to send folks where I can explain. Why isn’t X book available on Kobo/Barnes & Noble/Apple/etc.?.Why isn’t X book available in Kindle Unlimited?.I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, because I get these questions a lot:
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