You are paid based
on pages read from a pot of money shared between authors at the end of each month.
Based on the fact that Amazon is tabulating lower page counts, offers a lower
payout on pages read, and is clipping back matter with the «Before You Go» page, it is advised that independent authors and small presses seriously consider whether Kindle Unlimited is a good deal for them.
My only advice if you use KU would be to keep an
eye on the page reads, and if you're unsure, or get a sudden boost, contact Amazon through the KDP dashboard.
We are being told based
on pages read last month and the pot amount that this month will be $.005 for a page read.
Total Boox, with headquarters in Tel Aviv, provides a metered reading model that allows readers to checkout and download titles at no cost to the library, with charges incurred based
only on pages read.
READ - allows reading books as fully illustrated e-books with cinematic high - quality illustrations on each page
If people just click the link and nominate, then scout assumes that's a friend / fan nomination, whereas if someone spends 10 minutes or
so on your page reading everything you wrote, and then they nominate, scout can say «this user read and liked the entry and voted» instead of «this user is just clicking to support the author».
So, remember that new Amazon payment scheme that's going to revolutionize self - publishing by dolling out royalties based
on pages read rather than copies sold?
But it seems scammers had figured out that they could trick Amazon into giving them a big piece of the Kindle Unlimited bounty that Amazon funds and distributes (based, amongst other things,
on the pages read by a member of Kindle Unlimited that borrows your ebook).
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Based on the fact that Amazon is tabulating lower page counts, offers lower
payout on pages read, and is clipping back matter with the «Before You Go» page, it is advised that independent authors and small presses seriously consider whether Kindle Unlimited is a good deal for them.
I hope your books are doing well, whilst I won't return to KU I do often urge anyone on there to keep an
eye on page reads and if they are unsure contact Amazon through the KDP dashboard.
As of July 1st, 2015 Amazon now pays out royalties
based on pages read and not by units purchased or loaned.
I've been watching all those blustering about the nerve of Amazon to pay based
on pages read and shaking my head.
The Global Fund offers authors the advantage of being paid based
on pages read, calculated from the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC).
But what we do know is that our payout will be based
on pages read.
2.5 million readers in KU is a lot of readers, and because our calculations are based
on pages read it's likely that the 2.5 Million number represents the active readers enrolled in KU.
Amazon now will pay authors based
on pages read, which is not resonating well with most authors.
Amazon pays based
on page reads, and from a monthly pot with a value that it determines.
Whereas before — as described above — an amount was arrived at based on blah - blah - Amazon - Math divided by books borrowed and read up to 10 %, they were going to pay based
on pages read, full stop.
Today, Murphy says, she receives a «consistent profit» from her ebooks based
on page reads.
Indie authors do get paid for these borrows — based
on pages read — but the system is somewhat arcane.
When KU2.0 rolled around, and we started getting paid based
on pages reads, people who'd been making thousands of dollars a month on short fiction were suddenly making hundreds, if that.
I also have a boxed set of those four books (over 1000 pages) in the Kindle Unlimited program to earn royalties
on pages read.
TFL asked its users for feedback on the Kindle Unlimited switch from paying authors a flat monthly rate per borrow to a system based
on pages read.