But, again, not knowing
how normalized pages read compares to the number of downloads makes this an interesting mental exercise but really doesn't answer the question of how many of the borrows are actually being read all the way through.
Not exact matches
By the way, Amazon, why not give us the «
normalized page» count for our title (in other words, on our dashboard, tell us what this number is so we can use it to figure out
how many books are being read through.)
Amazon is using a
normalized page count that accounts for
how much content is actually there, so the rate should be the same no matter the layout.
Since eBooks don't have «
pages» as would be understood for print books, Amazon has devised the KENP (Kindle Edition
Normalized Pages) metric to figure out
how much a KU subscriber has read of your eBook.
It varies based on the money in the global fund (and Amazon sends an email each month detailing
how much money is there) and
how many titles are enrolled as well as
how many
normalized pages have been read.
As far as we could find, Amazon has not disclosed the exact parameters that they use to decide
how many KENP (Kindle Edition
Normalized Pages) your book is, but they definitely do re-define what a «
page» is.
In January of 2016, Amazon announced yet another change in
how they were going to pay authors with the introduction of KENPC v2.0 (Kindle Edition
Normalized Page Count).
Given that the length of an e-book
page varies depending on the device it's being read on, Amazon has developed what it dubs a «standardized approach» to determine how many «pages» of a KDP e-book have been read each month — coming up with yet another acronym for this (aka the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count or KEN
page varies depending on the device it's being read on, Amazon has developed what it dubs a «standardized approach» to determine
how many «
pages» of a KDP e-book have been read each month — coming up with yet another acronym for this (aka the Kindle Edition
Normalized Page Count or KEN
Page Count or KENPC).
On the course
page they explain
how a thoughtfully designed kitchen could do much to integrate and «
normalize» composting in our daily lives: