SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon.com, Inc. today announced KDP Select, a new option featuring a $6 million annual fund dedicated to independent authors and publishers. Here’s how KDP ...

It’s the retail ebook platform that everyone loves to hate, at least according to its numerous critics, but Amazon’s April 4 th report on the status of its KDP Select program would show otherwise.

Amazon is celebrating its first calender year of the Kindle Direct Publishing Select program. This allows authors to tap into an ever growing pool of money when people borrow ebooks for free with ...

Last Thursday, Amazon opened its KDP Select program to self-published authors and indie publishers. Indies can enroll qualifying books in the Kindle Owners Library program, making their books free for ...

When Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN - News) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. Just four days ago, Amazon gave self-published authors ...

Two weeks ago I wrote an article called "Publishing is Broken" on the rise of self-publishing that sparked a great deal of conversation. It also forced an apology from Sue Grafton whose interview with ...

Amazon has announced a new initiative called KDP Select, which will give self-published authors a share of a $500,000 per month fund that Amazon is providing through at least the end of next year for ...

Amazon is introducing a new system that completely upends the way authors and publishers make money from their books. Starting next month, the company will pay authors based on the number of pages ...

Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has grown considerably since launching in the US, and it looks like the company's finally decided it was time to let some other countries in on the service as ...

Now that Amazon has uncorked their Kindle Unlimited service I, like many indie authors, was curious. What does this mean for us withered scribes, scribbling away in our garrets and bobbing on the ...

Amazon announced this afternoon that it will be expanding its Kindle Direct Publishing business to support the needs of children’s books authors through a new program it’s calling “KDP Kids.” Along ...