Statistical confusions

This is one item from Carlo Carrenha’s Publishing Perspectives October 26th round-up: “Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited is expected to surpass $5 billion in cumulative payments to self-published authors and small presses when its October 2026 figures are released in November. According to The New Publishing Standard,* the ebook subscription service has distributed $4.99 billion since its launch in July 2014, when monthly payouts stood at just $2.5 million. Payments reached $66 million in August and $65.9 million in September 2026, averaging $64.9 million per month this year. These figures cover Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors and smaller publishers participating in Kindle Unlimited, excluding payments to major publishers, individual ebook sales, and Amazon Publishing authors.” “It is long past time for the publishing industry to include self-publishing in its market statistics. Amazon’s reluctance to share data makes this difficult, but the sector is simply too large to ignore.…

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