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KINDLE UNLIMITED PER PAGE RATE FOR JUNE, 2017 The per-page rate for KENP pages read for Kindle Unlimited was $0.004223 in June, 2017.
It’s only a couple percent less than the rate for May, 2017, which was $0.00433, but it’s a continued drop from April, 2017’s rate of $0.00457.
On the other hand, the KDP Select Global Fund for June, 2017 was $18M, which is a slight increase over May’s fund of $17.9M.
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AMAZON PRIME DAY, 2017 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 marks Amazon Prime Day this year.
It’s like a summer Black Friday exclusive for Amazon Prime customers.
Check out the deals at Amazon.
It kind of snuck up on me this year. Is July 11 really here so soon? Wait: It’s already July? Didn’ -
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KINDLE UNLIMITED PER PAGE RATE FOR MAY, 2017 In May, 2017, the per-page rate for Kindle Unlimited KENP pages read dropped down a bit to $0.00433 from the value of $0.00457 for April, 2017.
It’s not the first time the per-page rate has dropped, though for quite some time it has held fairly steady, and not too long ago it peaked at about half a penny per page.
The rate is currently closer to $0.04 per page than it is to $0.05 per page, but that’s -
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Blog postINSERT A URL HYPERLINK WITH THE KINDLE KIDS BOOK CREATOR The Kindle Kids’ Book Creator (KKBC) is Amazon KDP’s free self-publishing tool for creating illustrated children’s books from a PDF or from jpeg images.
The KKBC is easy to use, convenient, and is both PDF and JPEG friendly. It results in a fixed-format Kindle e-book, designed for picture friendly devices (and so the published e-book may not be available across all devices, but it will work on most devices for which it would be -
Blog postAPRIL, 2017 KINDLE UNLIMITED PAGES READ RATE The KENP per-page rate for Kindle Unlimited held steady in April, 2017.
The KENP per page rate for April, 2017 is $0.00457, which is nearly identical to the rate for March, 2017, which was $0.00460 per page.
The KDP Select Global Fund also held steady in April, 2017.
The Global Fund is $17.8M for April, 2017, which is slightly up from March, 2017, for which the Global Fund was $1 -
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KINDLE UNLIMITED, MARCH, 2017 The KENP per-page rate for Kindle Unlimited dropped a little in March, 2017.
The rate per page is $0.0046 for March, 2017, which is down a little from $0.00497 for February, 2017.
The KDP Select Global Fund is $17.7M for March, 2017, which is up nearly $1M from $16.8M in February.
So although the KENP per-page rate took a slight dip, Amazon poured an extra $1M into Kindle Unlimited royalties compared to Febr -
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KINDLE CREATE Amazon KDP launched a new free app called Kindle Create, which provides a simplified conversion process to format a Kindle e-book from Microsoft Word.
You can check it out here: https://kdp.amazon.com/help/topic/AIEDQZJ8TVWZX. Available for both Windows and Mac.
It’s not foolproof. And it won’t do everything that you can dream of. But if you’re looking for a simplified -
Blog postKINDLE UNLIMITED, FEBRUARY, 2017 The per-page rate for Kindle Unlimited nearly returned to half a penny per page in February, 2017.
The KENP per-page rate is $0.00497, which actually rounds to half a center per page.
The rate is up a little from January’s rate of $0.004754.
The KDP Select Global Fund dropped from $17.8M in January to $16.8M in February, which returns it what it was back in December, 2016.
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JANUARY, 2017 PER-PAGE RATE FOR KINDLE UNLIMITED
The KENP per-page rate for Kindle Unlimited dropped down to $0.004754 for the month of January, 2017.
But I’m not worried:
The per-page rate (and Prime borrows before that) generally take a noticeable dip in January. It’s not a surprise. (What’s a surprise is that it didn’t drop in December.) The per-page rate in January, 2017 is much higher than it was in January, 2016. It was at an al -
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SHOPPING FOR BOOKS Consider the following Tale of Two Stores.
You walk into a department store. What do you see? Sony. Levi’s. Apple. Nike. LazyBoy. Everything is branded. You’re in a big business. Many of the products for sale were manufactured by big businesses. Ultimately, people were involved at some stage: design, manufacture, assembly, shipping, merchandising, advertising deals, etc. Much of the work may also have been automated.
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Blog postUSING ALGEBRA IN ARITHMETIC It’s interesting that algebra can be useful in arithmetic.
Since arithmetic is a prerequsite to learning algebra, most algebra courses don’t focus on how to apply algebra to do arithmetic.
However, you can apply your algebra skills to arithmetic problems.
Following is an example.
Suppose that you would like to multiply 58 times 58, but don’t have a calculator (or cell phone) handy.
One way to do this, which is often taught i -
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Blog postNUMBER PATTERN PUZZLE Here is an exercise in pattern recognition.
It’s not a linear pattern.
This is an array, so there is a slight geometric element to the pattern.
See if you can figure out the missing numbers in the above puzzle.
Study the four arrays.
See if you can recognize the pattern.
Once you identify the pattern, apply it to the fifth array.
Spoiler alert.
If you scroll down too far…
You will run into the answe -
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MATH PUZZLES Here is a math puzzle challenge.
Hint: Each of the 5 patterns below has something in common.
Directions: See if you can figure out which numbers go in the blanks.
1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, _, _ 4, 6, 10, 14, 22, 26, 34, 38, _, _ 3, 7, 13, 19, 29, 37, _, _ 4, 9, 25, 49, 121, 169, 289, _, _ 5, 8, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 52, 60, 68, _, _ If you need help, you can find hints below.
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Blog postHOW TO FIND THE SLOPE OF A STRAIGHT LINE Slope is a measure that indicates how steep or shallow a straight line is:
A line with greater slope is steeper. A line with less slope is shallower. A horizontal line has zero slope. Slope can be positive or negative:
A line with positive slope slants upward. A line with negative slope slants downward. A line with zero slope is horizontal. The slope of a straight line equals rise over run.
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KINDS OF POEMS We’ve started a page on the Read Tuesday website to help spread awareness of different forms of poetry, such as the haiku, iambic pentameter, or the villanelle.
Check out the page here: https://readtuesday.com/poems/.
And please help us add to it:
Check out the poetry page. Find a form of poetry or a poetry term that’s missing. If you have a poem that illustrates the form or term, let us know. Find the Contact Us button at the -
Blog postTRIGONOMETRY MEMORY TIP There is a simple way to remember the sine, cosine, and tangent of special trigonometry angles.
The special trig angles are 0º, 30º, 45º, 60º, and 90º. What makes these angles special? The 30º-60º-90º triangle is one-half of an equilateral triangle, while the 45º-45º-90º triangle is one-half of a square. In both cases, the trig functions (sine, cosine, and tangent) can be expressed as simple ratios.
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Blog postMULTIPLICATION FACTS 0-12 When students learn multiplication, it starts out easy.
Too easy, as 0 times anything equals 0 (e.g. 0 x 8 = 0, while anything times 1 equals itself (e.g. 4 x 1 = 4).
But it doesn’t stay easy. Most students struggle to remember multiplication facts where one of the numbers is 6, 7, 8, or 9.
However, there are some tips to aid in memorization.
For one, mirror images don’t matter. The word for this is commutative.
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Blog postHere is a fascinating history of anagrams.
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EXPOSURE FOR POETS Attention poets: I have an opportunity to help promote some of your poetry.
Marketing poems isn’t easy. I see several wonderful poetry blogs here at WordPress (I follow many of them).
I have an idea that may help a little. Any help is better than no help, right?
Here is my idea:
I want to create an educational page on Read Tuesday, designed to illustrate the wide variety of poems that poets write. The page will c -
Blog postHere is a neat little math puzzle from the Mathemagical Site (which lives up to its great name).
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FIBONACCI SEQUENCE The Fibonacci sequence adds consecutive terms:
1 1 1 + 1 = 2 2 + 1 = 3 3 + 2 = 5 5 + 3 = 8 8 + 5 = 13 13 + 8 = 21 21 + 13 = 34 34 + 21 = 55 55 + 34 = 89 Since the last two terms were 55 and 89, we would add these together to get 89 + 55 = 144.
Then you would add 144 and 89 to make 233, and so on.
I saw a cool pattern involving the Fibonacci sequence recently at the Mathemagical Site:
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Blog postWhat a cool visual puzzle from Mathemagical Site. Better think out of the box for this one.
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FATHER’S DAY BOOKS What better way for dads to enjoy Father’s Day than to curl up with a good book?
Even better, how about a book that features a father?
(Sorry, hammock and island resort not included.)
Happy Father’s Day!
EPIC FANTASY SHORT STORY Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts
Charles E. Yallowitz
Meet Ichabod Brooks. A man who does what he has to do to put food on his family’s table. Even if that means -
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FATHER’S DAY READING Father’s Day is almost here: Sunday, June 21, 2015.
Are you an author of a book that relates to Father’s Day in some way?
For example, two of the main characters may be a father and son.
If you have a book relating to Father’s Day, please let us know.
Read Tuesday would like to collect a list of books relating to Father’s Day.
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NEW BOOK CATEGORIES How would you like to check out new book categories?
Well, they won’t spring up at Amazon frequently.
When an author writes a new genre of book, it gets classified among preexisting genres.
This makes it a challenge for readers to discover new kinds of books, breaking the standard mold. It’s also a challenge for the authors and publishers to get such books noticed.
So Read Tuesday has created a page called Coo -
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SEARCHING FOR COOL CHARACTERS? Now there is a way to get interested in a book without first judging the book by its cover.
It’s called Meet the Characters.
With Meet the Characters, one of the characters from a book introduces the book to you.
This way, you can meet one of the characters directly. You also get a taste of the author’s writing style.
And you do this without first seeing the cover.
If the book—or the charac -
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NONEXISTENT BOOK CATEGORIES There are two related problems from two different perspectives:
Many readers may enjoy reading a totally brand new kind of book. But how do you find such a book when everything is listed in standard preexisting categories? Many writers are naturally creative, and wish to extend that creativity toward writing a totally different kind of book. But when you proceed to publish your book, how will readers discover it? When you need t -
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MEET THE CHARACTERS It’s nearly impossible to discover a new book and learn about it without first seeing the cover.
In the bookstore, this was a necessity. (Unless you put on a blindfold, opened the book, and then removed the blindfold.) In principle, online bookstores don’t need to show you the cover first. But they do anyway. It’s a marketing strategy. That visual appeal generates interest, helps generate spontaneous purchases, and cover design tricks ca -
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KINDLE SCOUT Amazon recently launched a new program called Kindle Scout.
It’s a new publishing program that involves reader input. (Currently available in the US.)
It’s a form of publishing, not self-publishing, but unlike traditional publishing:
$1500 advance and 50% royalties Reader voting impacts consideration Looking for new, copy-edited manuscripts It helps to have a good cover There is a reward for readers to get involved, too: -
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KINDLE SCOUT Amazon has a relatively new publishing program called Kindle Scout.
http://kindlescout.amazon.com
It’s publishing, not self-publishing, but more accessible than other traditional publishing. And readers have a much more involved role.
Authors submit complete, copy-edited manuscripts, and readers check out the covers, descriptions, first 3000 words, and bios.
Readers vote on their favorites. It’s not strictly a popula
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