The first month of Kindle Unlimited 2.0 is now in the bag, and I am happy with it so far. I had over 200,000 pages read of my books in Kindle Unlimited. While that is a piddly number compared to the big dogs, I'm happy with it, except I know I could have done even better if I hadn't screwed up in mid-July. (accidentally let them expire when their then current term ran out.) There is something incredibly satisfying about seeing and knowing that people are actually reading the books. Yes, I get reviews and emails, but those are from a very small minority of readers. For the most part, I can only guess that people are reading because they bought/borrowed the next book. If it kind of freaks you out as a reader that authors can 'see' you reading, don't worry about it. We don't even know the number of books that have been borrowed in total. We don't even know if most of our pages read are just someone sampling the first few pages and returning the book. We definitely don't have access to who downloaded a book, where they are in the world (other than which country) and don't know when you stopped reading a book. All the pages read are lumped together into one number for a book. For those who don't know what Kindle Unlimited is, and I know there are still quite a few of you out there who might be wondering, Kindle Unlimited is a program Amazon started a year ago. The reader pays a monthly fee of $9.99 and for that, they have access to the Kindle Unlimited library. I think that's over a million books last I checked. You however many of those books that you want. The only restriction is that you can only have 10 checked out at one time. If you try to get book 11, Amazon simply reminds you that you have 10 already and would you like to return a book. (pops up with a book in your library so you can very easily return it, or select another to return.) I don't know about you, but I can't read 10 at a time anyway, so the restriction hasn't been an issue at all. You also don't have to worry that an author is going to pull their books from the library before you finish it, because once you have it downloaded into your library, it will stay there until you return it. It could be months. I had pages read from No Good Deed last month, and it hasn't been in KU since mid-January, so it sat on someone's Kindle that long before they read it. Anyway, there are a ton of great books in Kindle Unlimited. I keep reading about authors who had pulled their full-length novels out of it last year because they were losing out since a borrow paid so much less than a sale, but many are now putting their books back into Kindle Unlimited. Some of these are New York Times and USA Today Bestselling books. Not to mention the thousands of great books you might never have discovered.
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