On this basis, Amazon's Kindle Unlimited is perhaps the purest
subscription model around: it now pays authors a fee based on the number of pages read from a
pool of money it alone decides, representing an economically viable if ultimately unpalatable future.
Brill said that writers will earn an average of $ 100,000 per piece, but suggested that they could stand to make even more than that by sharing in the revenues generated by the project's
subscription business (this sounds a little like the
model that crowdfunding platform Beacon Reader uses, where revenue is
pooled among all the writers, but I'm pretty sure they don't pay $ 100,000 per piece).