With box sets the impact of
pages read earnings is often very significant.
Not exact matches
And while you're free to post anonymously here, it's not the best place to share your own private
earnings info, as this
page will be available to anyone who wants to
read and participate.
«KindleUnlimited indie
page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author
earnings).»
Quote ««KindleUnlimited indie
page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author
earnings).
My books were in the top 10000 this month, I sold about 600 copies (15 a day), and my
earnings showed $ 623.91 — but I actually got paid over $ 1400 — because of all the «
page reads» from people in KU.
4) Borrow payouts are more comparable to sales
earnings now... depending on your pricing,
page - length,
page through -
read, etc..
As a KU user, you'll be paid out for a maximum of 3000
pages read from a monthly pool: so your
earnings will be changing every month, depending on the size of the pool, location and
pages read altogether.
Scammers were manipulating Amazon's algorithms and
page - counting methods to artificially inflate the
page reads,
earnings and sales rank of certain books.
AE's methodology for calculating KU author
earnings and KU
pages read still yields a fairly accurate independent match to the actual monthly KU
page -
read and payout totals reported by Amazon themselves..
Then they devalued my writing further by paying me less than a half penny per
page, which means my
earnings dropped to $ 1.00 for full
reads in the US and only 25 cents for my books in India.
If you
read my cv info
page, you will see that I came out of a very lucrative career, and seriously never gave any thought to
earnings capability, other than I just figured I'd be successful because I treated people better than most had been in the habit of being treated, and they sent me all their friends and relatives.