Self-Publish Battles On
Recently, we've been hearing more horror stories about changes to self-published works that are submitted/uploaded to Amazon for their Kindle. The latest issue is attached to their Unlimited program, where they've taken it upon themselves to pay the AUTHOR based on the number of pages read. 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. The author of a 200 page book that was borrowed 100 times but only read halfway through on average would earn $1,000 ($10 million multiplied by 10,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages). We will similarly change the way we pay KDP Select All-Star bonuses which will be awarded to authors and titles based on total KU and KOLL pages read. Not being a member of this Unlimited program, I might not have a right to voice an opinion on the topic, but these types of issues usually include a trickle-down...