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emellaich · 12-10-2011, 11:38 PM

The terms and conditions are here:
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishi...=APILE934L348N

I see that an author's share of the pie will be based on their share of total lending in the prime program. If there are a total of 100 checkouts of prime books in a month and a particular book is checked out one time, then the author of that book will get one percent of the total. In reality, I expect that most of the money will go to a handful of books.

12-10-2011, 11:38 PM	#135
emellaich Wizard Posts: 1,101 Karma: 4388403 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Palm>Ebookman>IPaq>Axim>Cybook>Kndl2>IPAD>Kndl3SO>Voyager>Oasis	The terms and conditions are here: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishi...=APILE934L348N I see that an author's share of the pie will be based on their share of total lending in the prime program. If there are a total of 100 checkouts of prime books in a month and a particular book is checked out one time, then the author of that book will get one percent of the total. In reality, I expect that most of the money will go to a handful of books.