Amazon has confirmed that it will continue to pay
per page read if a book is read over a series of months, so payment on a borrow could be split over a couple of months or more.
Amazon held steady on the Kindle Unlimited KENP royalty payout to authors for November 2015 with a rate of $ 0.0049
per page read.
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.
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).
The main advantage of Select is that the book will always be free for Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, but Amazon will pay you when they borrow the book, approximately six tenths of a penny
per page read.
Well, it's interesting then because we've just seen Amazon move to, in Kindle Unlimited, paying
per page read.
Authors are compensated less than one half penny
per page read.
And to me micropayments, the kind of 0.0001 rupee
per page read, of the whatever billion people in India, that's what I want in on.
It usually averages $.004 to $.0045
per page read.
Despite articles with titles like «Amazon set to pay self - published authors as little as $ 0.006
per page read,» it turns out that for now at least, Amazon seems to be paying very close to what they would be paid if someone bought the book.
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)
In any case getting 1/2 a cent
per page read is not fair and does not inspire one to be a writer because to make a $ 1,000 you would need 200,000 pages read.
The switch to pay
per page read was a total shocker to me, but the previous model helped me understand the impact.
But, with Kindle Unlimited, if someone borrows one of my stories, I get paid
per page read.
If you're in KDP Select, it doesn't make so much of a difference, because you'll get paid
per page read.
Since the payments come from a shared pool, the average payment
per page read will decrease.
That would be a fairly easy way to calculate the payout
per page read.
The number varies monthly but tends to swing between $.004 and $.005
per page read.
For those not familiar with KDP, the red graph shows paid ebook sales, and the blue shows the number of pages of my ebook read each day by subscribers to Kindle Unlimited (We get paid around half a cent
per page read)
Paying
per page read could encourage authors to write in a certain way in order to make more money.
Total KENP pages read, (this is Amazon's new system of paying an author
per page read when it's borrowed)-- 18,541 * There are 346 pages in book one which converts to 53.5 books
Nobody really expected Amazon to take things one step further, and announce that it would pay start paying its authors
per page read.
Amazon is capping
the per page read system at 3,000 pages.
A variety of new business models have erupted that do everything from charging
per page read to fully interactive editions.
Under the new program, I earned approximately $.005779
per page read.
Amazon is lowering the pay for short self - published works by changing to pay
per page read (sometimes as low as $ 0.006 per page).
You are missing something KU pays authors about a half a penny
per page read, which works out to pretty much what that author would have made on a $ 2.99 retail sale of a 400 page book.
The most important benefit of going exclusively with Amazon is that you can participate in the Kindle Unlimited subscriber service, in which authors are paid about a half - penny
per page read by the customer.
Beginning July 1st, writers with books enrolled in Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program will not be paid per borrow, they'll be paid
per page read, meaning, per page as pages are counted by Amazon.
In my understanding of KU, authors are paid a flat rate
per page read, regardless of the price I set for the book.
While the payment has been historically consistent — usually a bit less than half a cent
per page read — it does feel like a zero - sum game.
Beginning July 1st, KU authors will be paid
per page read rather than per borrow.
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.
But the news that is leading is that Amazon is paying Indie authors $ 0.006
per page read on the Kindle which sounds far worse.
A decrease in the number of pages of my books being read (probably due to the increased competition as more books are added to KOLL / KU) 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) A change in the KENP algorithm that reduced the number of pages in my books.
That comes out to just over a half cent
per page read.
I tend to think that being paid
per page read is probably the right way to go, but equating fantasy with erotic romance isn't — pages read mean different things in different genres.
Amazon Kindle Unlimited is a program where authors traditionally make money
per page read and also get a cut out of a pool of funds that changes on a month to month basis.
The coverage was all about paying authors
per pages read, and some made it sound like a dastardly deed by Amazon.
They offered the ability to pay
per pages read.
Well, if you go exclusive with Amazon, they have a programme called Kindle Unlimited where you are paid @
per pages read.
Not exact matches
MARCUS SHERIDAN Founder, The Sales Lion @TheSalesLion «For me, the most important metric is number of
pages read per lead.
Buffett takes this habit to the extreme — he
read between 600 and 1000
pages per day when he was beginning his investing career, and still devotes about 80 % of each day to
reading.
If we assume subscribers generally only make one pageview each visit (they have already
read most things) but chance visitors may
read only the
page they land on, but may look around (say an average of 2 pageviews
per visit), then we can guess that your average day includes 350 subscribers (you post most days) and about 500 + «drop - ins», mostly from Google.
Whereas I used to
read 3 - 4 books
per week, I am now lucky to
read 3 - 4
pages per week.
I love your menus but don't want to print 6 or so
pages per menu plan, and when I break them into to
pages it splits the menus and makes it hard to
read and follow.
Toddler books should have no more than one to two paragraphs of
reading per page.
Per Unicef stats, see
pages 35 - 37 to compare the US with all nations worldwide (or
read the whole article):
«When
reading, watching television, viewing the computer, or otherwise engaged, blink 10 to 20 times
per minute, rather than staring at the screen or
page without blinking at all.
I'm determined to
read at least 20
pages per day.