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Angelina Stanzione and Chris Rawson started selling nonfiction books on Amazon KDP in 2019. They hired ghostwriters to produce first drafts but replaced them with ChatGPT this year. The couple ...
Several self-publishing authors on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform say their books have been yanked and their accounts terminated without sufficient explanation.
– KDP Select books have been purchased, borrowed from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, or downloaded for free through KDP Select promotions over 200 million times. Author Successes ...
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) recently rolled out KDP Kids software for authors to publish and endorse illustrated and chapter e-books for kids in Kindle Stores all over the world.
Amazon has filed arbitration complaints against five individuals who it claims offered services to KDP authors and publishers intended to help them manipulate the reading platform for financial gain.
These guidelines require content creators to inform Amazon when they are publishing a book that contains AI-generated content, whether it be in the form of text, images, or translations.
For example, if total borrows of all participating KDP titles are 100,000 in December and your book was borrowed 1,500 times, you will earn $7,500 in additional royalties from KDP Select in December.
Regardless of participation in KDP Select, authors who self-publish on Amazon through KDP also earn a 70 percent royalty on books priced between $2.99 and $9.99, and a 35 percent royalty on books ...