Until the industry acknowledged these uncounted additional revenue and unit numbers, the picture we have of the publishing industry is at best distorted, and at worst misleading. Last month Amazon paid out $47.9 million to indie authors and small presses putting their ebooks into Kindle Unlimited (KU), the world’s biggest ebook subscription service. To be … Continue reading Uncounted by Circana Bookscan or the AAP, ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out $278.2 million in royalties in H1 2023 (up 10.7%), mostly to self-publishers