I get paid for the number
of pages read for the borrow as well as for the subsequent sales.
When opening a title you're taken to the beginning of the book or to the
last page read for books you've already started.
And the fundamental truth still remains — you are being paid
for pages read.
Authors are paid
per page read based on a fixed monthly pool of money that is announced every month.
You are paid based
on pages read from a pot of money shared between authors at the end of each month.
The Internet giant recently announced it would pay certain authors based on the number of
pages read in a book, rather than the number of times that a work is downloaded.
The big draw about the update is the ability to sync bookmarks and last
page read across devices.
Advertising books for sale with you invariably results in
more pages read too.
Under the new payment method, the amount an author earns will be determined by their share of
total pages read instead of their share of total qualified borrows.
I'll be happy
with pages read and payout, but if they're feeling really generous and give me the number of unique readers, that'll be cool.
The big takeaway from today is that French publishers and indie authors will be able to pick the per
page read payment option, therefore being able to generate more revenue.
Two years ago, I was making almost as much on
page reads as I was on sales.
This is how I can tell that I'm reading a story for the the story, the story the author wants to tell me and now worry
about pages read.
Under this new model, the amount an author earns will be determined by their share of total
pages read rather than their share of total qualified borrows.
At least if we know how
many pages read and how many books are borrowed to get averages, we can get a clearer picture of what is working and what isn't.
The declaration page is arguably the most important page of your policy, but it shouldn't be the
only page you read.
There's a page slider as well, so you can jump panels out of sequence, and the app remembers your last
page read when you return to it.
Having gone from borrow to
page reads didn't have much, if any, effect on me, either.
Especially as numbers of
pages read grows, it becomes almost impossible to judge what it means in terms of basic units.
You can have a specific
page read aloud or you can use two fingers and gesture on the screen to enable automatic page turn mode.
Not everyone is seeing growth, but overall, I'm seeing improved
pages read data for my books on average.
But today I checked my chart, and I had a
new page read spike from about two weeks ago.
I don't
track pages read but I do track time spent reading and listening to audiobooks.
The real test will be whether a week from now my base line of sales and
page reads steps up from the base line before the sale.
On this free downloads for teachers page, you will find a 5
page reading banner that you can download, print out, and assemble to display in your classroom.
A two -
page reading activity with questions in both French and English, plus answer key and suggested links to learn more.
While all similar services calculate royalties and
pages read differently, publishers can have a steady earning if many people regularly read their books or parts of their books.
Would that also mean that instead of getting a higher number for the
REAL pages read you'd get less for the pages your readers didn't enjoy?
In the end, the total number of
pages read equals a rough count of the total enjoyment each work offers to its readers.
I don't know if it amounts to the same amount of downloads since now it's # of
pages read versus 10 % read.
The
sample pages I read were compelling enough that I wanted to at least ask if you could see it in your heart please to share the rest of the story with me.
There are options for panel view (including the option to view the full page before and / or after panels), fit to width, or
full page reading.
They do a little bit but the real spike in
page reads comes a week later and it's kind of hard to figure out why that is.
Wouldn't it be safe to assume that because you want
more pages read the money per page would be spread thinner?