Great on Kindle Feature: The New Kindle Publishing Program

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[Provenance: transcript track is in Arabic; summarized in English.] Dale Roberts reports news from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing about the new 2018 ‘Great on Kindle’ program for high-quality nonfiction ebooks, which he says explained a temporary pricing glitch in early 2018 when some KDP dashboards briefly showed a third, faded 50% royalty option alongside the usual 70% and 35%. Benefits he lists include a quality message/badge on the book’s detail page, promotional credit offers for customers, assurance that enrollment will not negatively affect royalties in the way authors might fear, nominations for potential marketing opportunities, and a 50% royalty plan when list-price requirements are met. He argues 50% can be attractive for image-rich nonfiction because standard delivery fees — about a penny for small files but rising sharply for multi-megabyte files, illustrated with a 10 MB book at $2.99 — eat into the 70% royalty, while the Great on Kindle 50% plan carries no delivery fees. Eligibility requirements he covers are: high-resolution images throughout, Enhanced Typesetting enabled, unique and accurate book details with no keyword stuffing and consistent title/author/series across formats, X-Ray enabled, all typos and formatting errors fixed, and an Amazon Author Central author page created. He stresses the program is currently invite-only and decided book-by-book, so authors can only meet the requirements and hope to be selected.

Key takeaways

• Great on Kindle is Amazon’s invite-only, per-book program highlighting high-quality nonfiction ebooks, offering a detail-page quality signal and promotional credit offers
• The program pays a 50% royalty with no delivery fees, which Roberts says can beat 70% minus delivery fees for large, image-heavy nonfiction files
• Eligibility requires high-resolution images, Enhanced Typesetting enabled, and X-Ray enabled
• Metadata must be accurate, unique, and consistent across formats, with no keyword stuffing and no listing in both a category and its subcategory
• Authors must fix all typos/formatting errors and have an Author Central page; meeting requirements does not guarantee an invitation

Episode details: published April 18, 2018 · 4:54 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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