KDP Select or the Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL)

If you haven't already heard, Amazon just started a new program called KDP Select. It's a program where Amazon PRIME members get to download one Kindle book a month from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL). The book is free to download with no due date. You just have to be a member of the $79/year Amazon PRIME program (and that's only available to US residents at this time) but there are benefits to the PRIME membership.

I wrote a blog about this (focused as much on the customers as on the Indie Authors potentially providing the content for Amazon's KOLL) here:

http://webbiegrrl.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuesday-tip-2-new-promotional-tools-you.html

I do not, personally, have any books in the KOLL and because of the requirement to make my book exclusive to the Amazon store for 90 days (as well as the difficulty opting out in time) I'm not planning to participate next year when I release my first book so I really don't have any vested personal interest here.

Some of the Indie Authors represented, however, are quite popular and they've enrolled some of their better works so I felt it was important news to share. It's definitely worth checking out!

-sry