Sentences with phrase «of pages read»

However, Amazon, in an uncharacteristic bout of transparency, revealed the total number of pages read in June 2015, which was the last month of the flat - rate KU payment system.

With subscription ebook services, readers surf books effortlessly, as if visiting a massive online library, and once they hit a percentage threshold of pages read for an individual title, it triggers a full sale.

KU has since moved to a pay - per - page system which pays according to number of pages read and which has already seen the page - count basis changed.

Instead of offering a standard royalty per borrow or page read, Amazon sets a KDP Select global fund each month and divides up the fund to authors according to the number of pages read.

Kindle Unlimited, which comprises mainly of self - published ebooks, operates largely on a different basis in that Amazon sets a KDP Global fund each month and then pays out from that fund to authors according to the number of pages read for their books.

With subscription ebook services, readers surf books, as if visiting a massive online library, and once they hit a percentage threshold of pages read for an individual title, it triggers a full sale.

This meant I had the total number of pages read in June and the total borrows for the month so I could work out that the average borrow was 228 KENPs.

Starting on July 1 Amazon says it will be switching how it calculates KDP royalties from the current situation, of «qualified borrows», to paying out based on the number of pages read.

Things got even worse when Amazon announced that starting in July it will be splitting up the Kindle Direct royalty pool in a completely different fashion, based on the number of pages read — and this was announced just weeks before it took effect.

-- Amazon announced that, for the self - published titles in its Kindle Unlimited subscription program, it's going to pay authors by the number of pages read, rather than by the borrow.

Total audit adjustments for the month were an increase of roughly 2 % of pages read (though the amount will vary from author to author).

There's a huge thread on kboards (and lots of discussion in private groups) with indie authors complaining about not only a possible algorithmic shift, but more concerningly, issues with the accuracy of pages read being reported.

The authors are paid out of a set pool of money, the amount of which is set at Amazon's discretion each month — and again, starting this summer, the authors are only paid by the number of pages read, a fraction of a cent per page.

The reports show the number of pages read per book so it's easy to figure out how much each book will make.

It has changed the way I market on Amazon — and in just a few short days — I have seen an improvement in sales and in the volume of pages read.

To make matters worse, during the fall, authors had to deal with incorrect reporting of pages read through KU, so distrust of the system — in addition to gaming of the system — may affect indie authors» desire to remain exclusive to Amazon in 2017.

A slight decrease in the amount Amazon pays per page read (due to the KDP Global Fund not keeping pace with the total number of pages read)

The total number of pages read that month was around 3 billion.

On the other hand, I have noticed that my sales have not only increased since they are in KU — if I add the average number of KU readers (easy to calculate by dividing the total number of pages read by the actual number of KENPC pages), I have almost doubled the number of «sales».

Since the number of pages read by a reader (which is what the payout is based off of) is measured by noting the furthest page in a book that a reader views, some believed that authors were cheating the system by preemptively pushing readers to the end of their books.

Total BooX keeps tabs when your patrons read and deducts from your library's balance only the value of the pages read, as they are read.

To estimate the total number of pages read across the program, divide the KDP Select Global Fund amount by this amount.

With KU, the contract is now for them to provide me the number of pages read and the amount due to me.

When Amazon released KENP 2.0 they capped the number of pages read that they were willing to pay out at 3000, so any book longer than that has the same maximum payout as a 3000 page book.

The data included title of the book, number of pages read and information placed by the publisher.

I recently quit Kindle Unlimited because they changed how they paid their authors (by number of pages read vs number of downloads, something that punishes books with less than 300 pages).

Instead of letting the market determine value in KU, they have decided that a book's value can be measured by the total number of pages read.

This way, the readers pay less, but publishers may earn more since publishers are paid out based on their list price or in some cases based on the number of pages read.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

KU is tricked into paying out for hundreds or thousands of pages read.

Reading Race - Students earn miles for number of pages read.

With the new system, however, an author won't have a clue how much money they're receiving based on number of downloads — it could vary with each, depending on the number of pages read.

Your ebook is available for Amazon Prime members to borrow your book for free, and you receive payment on number of pages read.

Some kind of breakdown of pages read vs. borrow — that could just be a simple rough binning of the numbers.

That converts to 1,900 m. That's a LOT of pages read.

Amazon has announced that it will begin paying its authors based on the number of pages read, rather than books sold.

From 1 July Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners» Lending Library authors will no longer be paid for each title downloaded, but rather on number of pages read.

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As most authors now know Amazon is going to start paying authors for the amount of pages read and not for each complete book.

But we are still at the mercy of how large the community pot happens to be each month and the number of pages read.

The payout rate is different every month due to factors such as KDP select global fund size and number of pages read in any given month.

Of course, the one company with the power to push back against the publishers is Amazon, and I do think this episode gives additional color to Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's own subscription program that, crucially, pays authors based on the number of pages read.

Revenue is based on the number of page views — i.e., the number of times an actual page of a book is read compared to the overall number of pages read across all titles.

Many retrailers, including Amazon, pay self - publishers on the basis of pages read.

They would pay royalties based on the number of pages read, instead of qualified borrows.

The ten most popular books are paid an extra $ 25,000, on top of the amount of pages read.

With box sets the impact of pages read earnings is often very significant.

But just recently they have began taking measures that hurt new authors, such as the latest kindle library adjustment which only allows payment to the author depending on the number of pages read.

Lower the number of pages read and the value of each page increases.

Each month, Amazon allocate a total amount of money to the program which is then divided up by the total number of pages read.