
KDP Select trades ebook exclusivity for Kindle Unlimited page reads, promo tools and 70% royalties in four extra marketplaces. Whether that trade wins depends on your genre's read-through economics — not on ideology. Here is what Select actually grants, what it actually costs, and the numbers that settle it.

Kindle Unlimited doesn't pay per borrow — it pays per normalized page read, at a rate Amazon derives each month from a global fund and only announces mid-following-month. Here is how KENPC works, what a page read is actually worth per marketplace, and how to compute what your reads really earn.