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Training #659 — KDP Select in the Kindle+ Era

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Kindle Unlimited is gone. Well, sort of. On October 22, Amazon renamed it Kindle+, and for the first time, subscribers in the US can listen to audiobooks as part of their subscription, not just read ebooks.

If your books are in KDP Select (or you’ve been wondering whether they should be), that raises a lot of questions. Is your audiobook eligible? Does enrolling it change who you can sell it through? How do you get paid when someone listens instead of reads, and what happens if they do both? The answers are scattered across half a dozen KDP and ACX help pages, and a few of them aren’t spelled out anywhere yet.

It has also been almost five years since our last dedicated KDP Select training, and Kindle+ isn’t the only thing that has changed since then. You can now distribute your Select ebooks to public libraries. The monthly Global Fund has grown from about $40 million to nearly $70 million. And there’s a new way to nominate your books for Kindle Deals and Prime Reading.

In this training, we’ll pull everything into one place and cover:

  • What KDP Select still requires for your ebooks, including what exclusivity does and doesn’t cover now
  • How audiobooks get into Kindle+, and why Virtual Voice and ACX audiobooks follow different rules
  • Which ACX audiobooks qualify (and why royalty-share titles don’t, at least for now)
  • How listening is paid from the Global Fund, how “first read or listen” works, and where to find it in your KDP reports
  • What’s still available to Select ebooks: Countdown Deals, free promotions, the KDP Select bonus, and promotion nominations
  • What we still don’t know, including how listening rates will compare to page reads
  • How to decide whether KDP Select makes sense for some, all, or none of your books (and their audiobooks)

Whether you’ve been in Select for years, left it, or never tried it, you’ll come away knowing exactly what changed and what it means for your books.

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