How much does Kindle+ (Kindle Unlimited) pay per page

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Does Amazon publish a per-page rate?

The royalties estimator, checked on 21 October 2026, says the KENP rate is the amount KDP pays per page read from Kindle Unlimited. It defines that rate as the marketplace fund divided by KENP read there that month. The prior month's fund is announced near the 15th of the next month. The example is a September fund announced around 15 October. The rate changes every month, so an estimate that uses the previous rate, or an increase or a decrease, will differ from the royalty once the fund is announced. The help pages checked on 21 October 2026 do not print a KENP rate in dollars. Do not treat a dollar-per-page figure on another site as an Amazon figure. The author-reported rates in the table below are labelled with their source and date. The KDP Select page that day showed a banner, Total KDP Select Author Earnings, September 2026, 69.3 million USD. It is not labeled Global Fund. In France the program is called Abonnement Kindle. Authors established in France set a price per page read. Authors not established in France do not. Royalties for authors based in France do not vary with that price. They are paid a share of the Global Fund, as are all KDP authors. That price is not the KENP rate.[543][544][545]

• A per-page dollar figure on another site is not an Amazon figure. The table below keeps those figures in their own column.
• The September banner and the March 2026 Kindle Unlimited earnings line both use 69.3 million USD. They are not the same line.

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What Global Fund amounts do Amazon announcements state?

KDP announces the fund in the community forum. The table uses the clock date and the three amounts on each KDP Community post that could be read on 21 October 2026, for March through July. January, February, August, and September 2026 Global Fund amounts were read from KDP Community posts on 10 November 2026 and are on the Kindle+ payouts page. The September banner of 69.3 million USD is Total KDP Select Author Earnings, not the fund. The March post uses 69.3 million USD for Kindle Unlimited earnings, beside a Global Fund of 65.9 million USD. Author-reported per-page rates are on the Kindle+ payouts page. They are not fund announcements, and a rate is not used to fill a fund.[542][547][548][549][550][551][552]

• The help page titled KDP Select Bonus states no dollar amount. The posts through July 2026 still name an All Stars bonus of 3.4 million USD.
• Neither source states a date when one name replaced the other. This page does not treat the two names as two programs.

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Where is the month-by-month rate table?

Last updated 10 November 2026. The month-by-month table now lives on the Kindle+ payouts page, so the fund and the author-reported rate are not kept in two places. Written Word Media's KDP Global Fund Payouts page is dated 20 October 2026. Its US per-page list is the read-rate column for January 2026 through September 2026. It does not print an October 2026 rate. KDP's royalties page, checked 9 November 2026, does not print a dollar rate for reading or for listening, so October's fund, read rate, and listen rate are blank. Fund cells on the payouts page use a KDP Community post only when one could be read. On 10 November 2026 that covers January through September 2026. October 2026 has no post yet. Written Word Media also prints fund amounts. The table does not copy them. For September 2026 the Written Word Media figure is 0.005365, and a page last updated 31 October 2026 prints 0.00531. The table keeps 0.005365 and does not average the two.[543][548][549][550][551][552][634][635][639][640]

• A reported rate can move in the fourth decimal from one dated page to another. Use the source and the date, not a blended figure.
• Your KDP report is the figure for your own books. A marketplace other than Amazon.com has its own rate.

• Kindle+ payouts by month
• Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+

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How does KDP describe KENPC, and where do you see it?

KENPC v3.0, checked on 21 October 2026, uses standard formatting, from the Start Reading Location, typically chapter 1, through the end of the book. Images, charts, and graphs count. It applies to every KDP Select ebook, including new pages in a copy borrowed earlier. The cap is 3,000 KENP per title per customer. KDP says the fund's total payout is unaffected by the version change. You see KENPC v3.0 on the Promote and Advertise page in the Bookshelf, and KENP read in reports, by marketplace and title. Monthly KENP figures can change until they are finalized near the 15th of the next month. KENPC can differ from the detail-page page count.[542]

• The detail-page page count is not the count Kindle Unlimited pays on.

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What does KDP say about the Select bonus, eligibility, and when KU earnings are paid?

The help page checked on 21 October 2026 is titled KDP Select Bonus. It is a discretionary bonus on top of Kindle Unlimited earnings, for an enrolled Kindle ebook that meets the content guidelines, using customer signals as well as pages read. The listed marketplaces are Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.ca, Amazon.au, Amazon.com.br, Amazon.in, and Amazon.mx. No dollar amount is stated. Separate Author and Illustrated Kids' Book bonuses no longer exist. The bonus is paid like other KDP sales, about 60 days after the awarded month, with an email and a line in the Prior Months' Royalties Report. Author Central is not required. KDP Select is free, covers the Kindle ebook only, including a pre-order, and is open to authors wherever they live. You need exclusive rights to the primary content. Public-domain content is not eligible. The term is 90 days, renews unless you opt out, and limits digital distribution to KDP and public libraries. Print, video, and audio may stay elsewhere. Up to 10 percent may be posted as a sample. Cancel within three days, or contact KDP after that. The exclusivity answer records the rest. The estimator pays KDP royalties about 60 days after the month the sale was reported, and about 90 days for Expanded Distribution. That 90-day line is not the Kindle Unlimited payment. Page-read estimates appear the next month, when the fund is announced near the 15th. This page does not merge those clocks into one payday.[543][546][547][568]

• The royalty-rates answer records the ebook and print rates. The author-earnings answer records what income surveys state.

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