Amazon calculated
the payout per page by beginning with their monthly KDP Select Global Fund and dividing it by the total number of (KENP) pages read.
Authors don't know what
the payout per page will be until the following month.
Since these changes,
the payout per page has increased back up toward $ 0.005 per page.
That would be a fairly easy way to calculate
the payout per page read.
2) The 0.6 penny
payout per page in the NEW MODEL is roughly equivalent to 1 penny per page under the OLD MODEL.
As for the fairness, assuming (big assume, granted) that
the payout per page read is fair, I don't know why so many people are screaming about the fact that Amazon is paying for page read.
Not exact matches
With the continual drop in the price -
per -
page payout from KDP Select, opening up their sales to other platforms might start to look even better than before.
Part of the problem is nobody knows what the
per -
page payout is going to be until Amazon provides the figure for the first month (July) which will be around August 15th.
In July 2015, Amazon adjusted the royalty
payout for eBooks enrolled in Kindle Unlimited from a
per - book to a
per -
page basis.
In July of 2015, Amazon adjusted the royalty
payout for eBooks enrolled in Kindle Unlimited from a
per - book to a
per -
page basis.
IF the
per -
page payout is as heresay says it will be.
As you know, «
page count» in an eBook is arbitrary in a reflowable eBook, and can change based on the reader's preferences (font face, font size, device size, etc.) In July 2015 when Amazon went to a per - page royalty payout, Amazon used an algorithm called KENPC (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) to tabulate the page co
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per -
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page count.
I'm thrilled if anything I share helps, and... KU
payouts are in for July, just under.006
per page, so I'm very happy with the results.
Here, the
page - read average would be zero, so every author would get an equal number, exactly like what we had before, where the
payout was around $ 1.30
per month.
And following our #FutureChat Friday on the topic of those service's new
per -
page payout and Scribd's de-listing of an unspecified number of romance titles, Howey has written twice more, once on Saturday (4th July) and oncetoday (6th July).
He's right: it's been interesting to see how easily we can focus on author frustration and overlook the fact that reader satisfaction — consumers — drives Amazonian decisions, even the new
per -
page payout in ebook subscription and borrowing.
That's one way to get an idea of how much you earn over the month with KU, and you can adjust the
per -
page payout under settings (I usually keep mine lower than projected just so I'm not disappointed:P)..
Time will tell how exactly KENPC 3.0 will change the
per page payout rates, if it will do so at all.
This is the soon - to - be-seafaring author Hugh Howey, who says that there's something more important than the doubling of his overall income since Amazon instituted
per -
page payouts... Read More
That's the author Hugh Howey writing about Wednesday (1st July), when Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select
payout structure officially changed from its original
per - borrow plan to a
per -
page - read plan.
We don't know yet what the
per -
page payout will be.
That's a big what - if, so I'll say it again: We don't know yet what the
per -
page payout will be.
In other words, there's not as much money coming from a subscriber in India as from one in the United States, and Amazon says that market factors «such as exchange rates, customer reading behavior,» and subscription prices are now to be reflected in how its
per -
page payouts are calculated for authors.
The first month of Kindle Unlimited's pay -
per -
page system for authors» royalties has seen the KENP payout rate (Kindle Edition Normalized Page) set at $ 0.0057 for July, as predicted in early J
page system for authors» royalties has seen the KENP
payout rate (Kindle Edition Normalized
Page) set at $ 0.0057 for July, as predicted in early J
Page) set at $ 0.0057 for July, as predicted in early July.
The August 2015 Kindle Unlimited KENP
payout to authors fell from July's level of $ 0.0057 to $ 0.0051
per page read (half a cent).
Low
payout looms on Kindle Unlimited pay -
per -
page system as Amazon reveals nearly 2 billion
page reads a month
This would hit illustrated children's books particularly hard under the pay -
per -
page system, with very low
payouts.
Kindle Unlimited is switching to a pay -
per -
page system from the present
payout of a flat payment
per book once 10 % of the book has been read.
And Amazon's change to the
per -
page payout structure — he calls this «KU 2.0» — has persuaded him to go in:
The previous months's KENP
payout was $ 0.0048
per page read, so I'm regarding this latest payment as being at the same level due to the vagaries of rounding off figures.
Let's do the time warp again Then Amazon switched to
per -
page payouts on KDP Select.
Amazon held steady on the Kindle Unlimited KENP royalty
payout to authors for November 2015 with a rate of $ 0.0049
per page read.
Until the switch to the KENP pay -
per -
page system in July 2015, it was relatively easy to work out the number of monthly borrows simply by dividing the total KDP Select global fund by the
payout rate.
The Kindle Unlimited
payout per KENP (Kindle Edition Normalized
Page) to authors fell by 9 % to $ 0.0041 in January from $ 0.0045 in December 2015 in spite of a 11 % boost for the KDP Select global fund taking it to another new high of $ 15 million from $ 13.5 million in the previous month.
A new pay -
per -
page - read system started operating on July 1 for KU and the first
payouts on that scheme will be revealed in mid-August.
Amazon says the switch to pay -
per -
page - read came after pressure from authors who considered the flat - rate system to be unfair as it paid out after just 10 % of a book was read, encouraging a mini industry of very short books where the
payout could be triggered after just a few
pages were read.
As Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select put its new
per -
page payout scheme into place early this month, the author Hugh Howey completed a full year of weighing whether to participate fully and to accept the exclusivity required.