How to Use the KENP Calculator
- Enter your KENP read. Take the number of Kindle Edition Normalized Pages read for the month from the KENP report in your KDP account, per title and per marketplace.
- Choose the marketplace. Each Amazon store has its own per-page rate, paid in its own currency.
- Check the rate. The rate field is filled with a sample value for the store. KDP sets the real rate every month, so replace it with the rate for the month you’re working out, and the royalty updates as you type.
The result is pages read multiplied by the per-page rate. It’s an estimate of what Kindle+ pays, before any tax withholding.
What KDP Pays For, and What It Does Not
These rules come from KDP's help page on Royalties in Kindle+:
- Only the first read counts. A Kindle+ subscriber can open your book as often as they like, but you’re paid for each page the first time they read it or listen to it.
- Counting starts at chapter 1. Pages are measured from the Start Reading Location, which Amazon usually sets at the first chapter, to the end of the book. Images, charts and graphs count towards the page total.
- There is a cap per reader. One customer can earn you at most 3,000 normalized pages per title.
- Pages are normalized. KENPC, now in version 3.0, measures pages with standard font, line height and spacing, so the count doesn’t depend on the reader's device or settings.
- Paying for reads isn’t allowed. KDP doesn’t permit marketing that rewards Kindle+ subscribers for reading your book.
Pages Listened in Kindle+
Audiobooks in Kindle+ are paid by the page as well, out of the same KDP Select Global Fund, which Amazon says it’s topping up to cover listening. The KENP report shows pages read and pages listened as separate lines. Listening is open to US subscribers, and the conditions are under which audiobooks qualify for Kindle+.
The calculator uses the reading rate for listened pages too, so treat a figure that includes them as a rough guide.
How the KENP Rate Is Set
Kindle+ royalties come out of the KDP Select Global Fund, which Amazon reviews every month. Each author's payout is their share of all pages read that month. KDP's own example: with a '0 million fund and 100 million pages read, a 100-page ebook read to the end by 100 readers earns $1,000, a 200-page ebook read to the end by 100 readers earns $2,000, and the same 200-page ebook read only halfway on average earns $1,000.
Check Your KENP Income Against Your Ebook Royalty
A book in KDP Select earns in two ways at once: a royalty on every ebook sold and a KENP payout on pages read or listened through Kindle+. To compare the two for your own book, work out the sale royalty with the KDP royalty calculator, and estimate how many copies a given Best Sellers Rank sells with the KDP sales calculator.
KENP FAQ
Is my KENP page count the same as my print page count?
No. To see how a word count translates into printed pages, use the words to pages calculator.
