Kindle+ payouts by month: fund size, read and listen rates

How to read this table

Rates differ by marketplace, and two author-reported pages can differ in the fourth decimal. This read column is the US list on Written Word Media's KDP Global Fund Payouts page, dated 20 October 2026. It is not a rate for every Amazon store, and it is not a figure from a KDP help page. KDP's royalties page, checked 9 November 2026, still does not print a dollar rate for reading or for listening.

The Global Fund column uses a KDP Community post only when that post could be read. Written Word Media also prints fund amounts. Those amounts are not copied here. The change column is arithmetic on two fund cells in this table. It stays Not computed when either month has no KDP fund figure. January 2026 is the first row, so its change stays Not computed. October 2026 has no fund post yet, so its change stays Not computed. The August 2026 post writes $66 million. This table records 66.0 million USD so the cell matches the other one-decimal fund figures.

For September 2026, Written Word Media prints 0.005365. A separate page, last updated 31 October 2026, prints an author-reported Amazon.com rate of 0.00531 and says Amazon does not publish the rate. The cell keeps 0.005365. This table does not average the two.

July 2026 is the worked example, because both numbers are on a cited page. The KDP Community post dated 18 August 2026 states a Global Fund of 67.6 million USD. Written Word Media prints 0.004221 for that month. One thousand times 0.004221 is 4.221 USD. That product is arithmetic on an author-reported rate. It is not a rate KDP published.

Listening was not part of the subscription in the January through September rows. October 2026 is the first month the help pages describe as including it. The fund, the US read rate, and the listen rate for October were not yet announced on 10 November 2026. KDP says the fund is announced monthly and that KENP numbers are finalized near the 15th of the next month. Check this table again on the 16th.

Changelog

10 November 2026. Filled January, February, August, and September 2026 from the KDP Community posts dated 14 February 2026, 14 March 2026, 16 September 2026, and 16 October 2026. The funds are 62.2, 58.3, 66.0, and 65.9 million USD. The August post writes $66 million, recorded here as 66.0 million USD. Changes versus the prior month are filled for February, March, August, and September. October 2026 stays not yet announced.

9 November 2026. Table opened. October 2026 fund, US read rate, and listen rate are not yet announced. Read rates for January through September 2026 are the Written Word Media figures dated 20 October 2026. Global Fund figures are filled only for March through July 2026, from the KDP Community posts already used on the Kindle Unlimited page.