Oct 24, 2026 · 1 hr 50 min · 20 segments
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Thomas UmstattdHost
Jonathan ShuergerHostAccording to the KDP community announcement, Amazon has rebranded Kindle Unlimited to Kindle Plus and expanded the subscription to eligible audiobooks for customers on Amazon.com. Kindle Unlimited is gone.
Audiobook listening now draws from the same KDP Select Global Fund that pays for e-book page reads.
Before October 22nd, that fund only paid for page reads, and now it's paying for pages listened.
Amazon says it is investing additional funds to support this new and growing audiobook catalog.
It says as we learn how customers are using both formats will evolve the fund to reflect those differences.
Amazon did not say how long that extra money is going to keep coming into the fund.
This is what Kindle Select authors need to understand is that Amazon has always just set the size of the fund every month.
So if you don't have an audio book that's eligible for this program, you may see your percentage or what you're paid per page go down, your KENP.
immediately it's just more money so to the the sugar to help the medicine go down is that amazon is taking more money in this first month they're going to cover from what i'm can tell all of the audiobook listens is just going to come out of the amazon corporate account and so it's So for the next month, it's going to be great and everyone is going to be swimming in gravy.
Now, I'm sure the suits at Amazon are thinking, oh, with this rebrand and with this big marketing campaign heading into the holiday season, we'll be able to make it up in volume and phase this down, the amount of margin that they're losing to put into the fund.
According to the KDP community announcement, Amazon has rebranded Kindle Unlimited to Kindle Plus and expanded the subscription to eligible audiobooks for customers on Amazon.com. Kindle Unlimited is gone.
Audiobook listening now draws from the same KDP Select Global Fund that pays for e-book page reads.
Before October 22nd, that fund only paid for page reads, and now it's paying for pages listened.
Amazon says it is investing additional funds to support this new and growing audiobook catalog.
It says as we learn how customers are using both formats will evolve the fund to reflect those differences.
Amazon did not say how long that extra money is going to keep coming into the fund.
This is what Kindle Select authors need to understand is that Amazon has always just set the size of the fund every month.
So if you don't have an audio book that's eligible for this program, you may see your percentage or what you're paid per page go down, your KENP.
immediately it's just more money so to the the sugar to help the medicine go down is that amazon is taking more money in this first month they're going to cover from what i'm can tell all of the audiobook listens is just going to come out of the amazon corporate account and so it's So for the next month, it's going to be great and everyone is going to be swimming in gravy.
Now, I'm sure the suits at Amazon are thinking, oh, with this rebrand and with this big marketing campaign heading into the holiday season, we'll be able to make it up in volume and phase this down, the amount of margin that they're losing to put into the fund.
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