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KDP Select puts the ebook in Kindle Unlimited and keeps that ebook off Apple, Kobo, Nook, Google, and the library ebook channels for 90 days at a time. You are paid for pages read from a fund that changes every month, not a fixed price per sale. The paperback can stay wide. We do not enroll you as a default.
The trade
Unlimited readers borrow the book. You are paid from the KDP Select Global Fund by Kindle Edition Normalized Pages read. The per-page rate is not a number we can promise in a contract, because Amazon changes the fund. A sale at $4.99 and a full read in Unlimited are different money. For some series the reads win. For a book you already promised to a book club on Apple, Select is a breach waiting to happen.
Countdown deals and free promotion days are included in Select. They are tools, not a launch. A free run with no page ready for the next book, and no way to tell anyone, is a quiet weekend. We will set the enrollment, the renewal, and any promo on a calendar you can see. Auto-renew stays off unless you asked for it.
Order of the work
What stays outside the lock
You can sell the paperback on Ingram while the ebook is exclusive. Do not let a helper upload the EPUB to Draft2Digital in the same month.
What we need
An old aggregator upload counts. If we cannot see it, we do not enroll.
Decisions
You want Unlimited and you can live without the other ebook shops for 90 days. We take the other copies down first.
You want Apple, Kobo, or libraries. Select is the wrong box. We will not hover over it.
Possible in a series, and confusing for readers. We will say so. A book that is wide and a sequel that is exclusive need a reason, not an accident.
House rule
Amazon ends exclusivity violations by closing the enrollment, and sometimes more than that.
Before the checkbox
Not cleanly. The term is the term. Plan the 90 days as real. If you need out, we look at what KDP allows that month, and we do not invent an exception.
No. Exclusivity is the ebook. Do not unpublish a wide paperback because you enrolled.
You do. We will write the consequence in a sentence and wait for a yes.
Before we tick it
Including the aggregator you opened and forgot. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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