Many Best-Selling Paid Kindle Books Free To Prime Members
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Becoming a Prime subscriber has many benefits. For starters, you receive free tw0-day shipping with most orders. Amazon is already great when it comes to shipping what people buy on time. With the Prime program, you will get what you buy in a flash. The Prime membership program gives you access to a huge load of free TV shows and movies too. Last but not the least, you can borrow many Kindle best sellers for free.
When Amazon started offering freebies with Amazon Prime, we were quite skeptical. But considering that 16 of the top 100 best selling paid Kindle books are free to borrow to Prime members, the $79 subscription is well worth paying for. This data is for the month of March but still pretty impressive. More than 100,000 books are now available in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. A lot of these books are exclusive to Kindle and are published using KDP (as a part of KDP Select).
In March, each time Kindle owners borrowed a KDP Select book from the lending library, the author received $2.18, leading to significant increases in income for independently-published authors. One example is Martin Crosbie, the independent author of “My Temporary Life.” After enrolling the book in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library in February, he earned over $45,000 in one month from paid sales and loans combined – a huge increase from the $100 he earned the prior two months when his book was not enrolled in the program,
Amazon explained in its press release. The KDP platform is not only great for independent authors, it gives Prime members the chance to consume some of the best content around for free. These success stories will surely encourage more indie authors to get involved.
