What if we live in a creation where authors clear royalties not based on how many books they sell , but on how many pages we say ? The estimate , which would have been preposterous 10 year ago , is not only potential with modern engineering , it ’s somethingAmazon will be test driving this summertime .
Beginning on July 1st , authors who self - put out throughAmazon ’s KDP Select Programwill become part of a new publication experimentation . Currently , Amazon divvies up a pot of money to its aboriginal author each month , based on the number of times their e - script are “ adopt ” through two freestanding Kindle services : Kindle Unlimited , a standalone , $ 9.99 / calendar month subscription service , and theKindle Lending Library , an Amazon Prime rank perquisite . In the newfangled scheme , author will be paid for each pageboy that remain on the CRT screen long enough to be parsed , the first time a customer reads the Good Book .
Amazon ’s letter to writers who issue through its Kindle Select program explained that the formula was changing because of a concern “ that paying the same for all books disregarding of length may not provide a strong enough alignment between the interestingness of author and readers . ” Amazon is being clever : While the authors of big , long , and important record felt that they were shortchanged by a pay - by - the - borrow formula , they probably did n’t have a bun in the oven that Amazon would take their proposal a step further . or else of devote the most ambitious , long - wind authors for each page written , Amazon will pay them for each page understand .
Book distance is still go to matter under the new arrangement , but in a slenderly more nuanced way . On the one hand , source will have more incentive than ever to keep their work from growing tiresomely ( an illegibly ) long . But on the other , the author of an action - bundle , 100 page novelette might stand to earn more if he can stretch his book out without lease the pace suffer .
One way or another , it seems , some authors are about to bid parting to the old publication saying “ It does n’t matter how many people read your book , only how many grease one’s palms it . ”
[ The Atlantic ]
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