I put this bit of news in my October newsletter, and I updated it in my November newsletter. I am committed to keeping you all as up to date as I can.

But I am fully going to pull this video if Amazon changes its policies again.

About a month or so ago, I started to see people posting online that authors in KU/Kindle Select could now have their ebooks listed in public libraries.

For context, historically, KU has required exclusivity for ebooks. Which means while an author could have their print books wid,e they had to commit to not having their ebooks anywhere else. (Even to the point that authors were penalized when their ebooks were pirated)

So seeing online rumors that this was changing was a red flag for me. A few individual authors confirmed it. When I put this out to my newsletter, authors wrote back showing the update to the policy page.
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GD9PMU58BV24QFZ7

So it would seem, this is accurate. You can have your ebook in KU and in public libraries. It is just disconcerting to me that this wasn’t big news. They didn’t push an email to everyone with a KDP Account. They told individual authors who asked but nothing larger. That’s kinda weird. Hence, my own hesitancy to even say something.

So… before you click that button or hit upload for your ebook elsewhere: check this page. Set a reminder for yourself every 90 days at one week before your ku contract automatically renews, and revisit this page.

Ok, so as a KU author, if you WANT to take your ebook to libraries… how do you do this? I’m recommending you use Draft2Digital because you select exactly which retailers or libraries you want your ebook in. So in this cas,e you’d just pick the places that get your book in libraries and youre set.

And now for the part where I put on my tin foil hat…
In October 2025, I heard the news that Baker & Taylor was closing their operations and shutting down. Baker & Taylor has been the primary network to distribute books to libraries in the U.S., while it seems logical that Ingram (IngramSpark’s parent company) will step in to fill that gap. But there have been rumblings of Amazon also trying to enter the market to distribute to libraries.

Ok, what questions do you have? On KDP. On Draft2Digital? Let me know below!