You earn 50% of what readers spend on the Tokens that are used to unlock your story’s episodes. You can track Kindle Vella royalty earnings, story likes, and episodes read in the Kindle Vella Dashboard in our KDP Reports.

Contents

• Tokens
• Royalties
• Kindle Vella bonus
• Reporting dashboard
• Payments

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Tokens

Effective December 4, 2024, readers can no longer purchase Tokens. Readers will be able to use remaining Tokens to unlock published stories and episodes until Kindle Vella closes in February 2025. Visit our Kindle Vella Update FAQ for more information.

To make it easy for readers to find stories they love, the first ten episodes of every story are free. Readers can unlock any paid episode for 10 Tokens each. Individual episodes must consist of a minimum of 600 words and a maximum of 5,000 words. You can view the number of Tokens needed to unlock an episode on the Episode setup page of your Kindle Vella Library.

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Royalties

Here's how royalty earnings per episode are calculated:

• (10 Tokens to unlock episode) * (Tokens bundle price/# of Tokens in bundle - taxes and fees) * (50% rev share) = Earnings per episode

For example, here's how we calculate earnings for an episode (10 Tokens) when the Tokens are purchased on the web in a 100 Tokens bundle versus a 2,000 Tokens bundle. In this example, we are assuming no taxes or fees.

• Episode purchased with 100 Tokens bundle: 10 Tokens * ($0.99/100 Tokens - 0) * 50% = $0.05
• Episode purchased with 2,000 Tokens bundle: 10 Tokens * ($16.79/2,000 Tokens - 0) * 50% = $0.04

If a reader unlocked an episode using free Tokens, you won't earn royalties on those Tokens. However, the number of free Tokens redeemed toward your Kindle Vella content is taken into consideration for your monthly Kindle Vella bonus.

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Kindle Vella bonus

Our final full Kindle Vella bonus announcement was shared in November for October reading activity in the KDP Community. We will issue a bonus for any reading activity from Prime Students in November to compensate authors for this free reading. If your stories have any Prime Student readers, you will receive an email with the amount of your bonus in December.

Near the 20th of each month, we'll post the previous month's bonus amount in your Kindle Vella Dashboard. We will pay your bonus with your total KDP payments approximately 60 days after the end of the month in which the bonus was earned. For example, if you earned a bonus in July, it will be paid with your September payments.

We always support our authors' efforts to promote their books, but at the same time we work to prevent any manipulation of the Kindle experience.

We do not permit authors to offer, or participate in marketing that incentivizes Kindle Vella customers to read their content in exchange for compensation of any kind. This includes payment (whether in the form of money or gift certificates), bonus content, entry to a contest or sweepstakes, discounts on future purchases, extra product, or other gifts.

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Reporting dashboard

You can access the Kindle Vella Dashboard in KDP Reports.

To access the Kindle Vella dashboard:

1. Go to your KDP Reports.
2. Under the Kindle Vella heading, click Dashboard.

To download Kindle Vella reports, you need to access first the Kindle Vella dashboard by following the steps above, and then:

1. Filter the report details by time period, author, and stories.
2. Click Download report button.

The Kindle Vella dashboard shows this information by story:

Section	What it shows
Kindle Vella Bonus (All Stories)	The total bonus amount (USD) by month. If you didn't earn a bonus for a particular month, that month won't be listed. This section will not appear until you’ve earned your first bonus.
Episodes read	The amount of: Total episodes read. This includes unlocked and locked episodes. Locked episodes read. This is the number of episodes readers purchased Tokens to unlock.
Royalties earned	The total royalties earned for your chosen date range in USD. If a reader unlocked your episode using free Tokens, that won't appear in your report. Learn more about free Tokens.
Episode Thumbs Up	The total Thumbs Up for the episodes in your story.
Story follows	The amount of readers following your story.
Story reviews	The amount of reviews readers left for your story.
Overview by episode	Shows the Episode Thumbs Up, Episode Reads, Episode Returns, and Episode Royalties - USD for each episode in your story.

The Kindle Vella report shows this information:

Report	What it shows
Stories report	The amount of: Total episodes read by story. This includes unlocked and locked episodes. Total episodes returned by story. Total royalties earned by story.

Learn more about KDP Reports.

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Payments

We'll combine and pay your Kindle Vella royalty earnings with your total KDP payment. Kindle Vella is U.S. only and you'll be paid through the Amazon.com store. As a reminder, KDP pays royalties every month, approximately 60 days after the end of the month in which the sale was reported. Learn more about getting paid.

You can track your payments from the Payment Report.

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