Start the era of the “Pay-Per-Page” (PPP)
Since July 1, 2015 Amazon has changed the payment system for writers participating in the program Kindle Unlimited , the streaming service of the ebook managed by the giant of Seattle. Warning! This new metric does not apply to all ebook stream (for example those of the editors), but only to those of the authors self-published participating in the program that KDP Select require the exclusive transfer of rights to Amazon.
The new units for the royalty payments writers will be the number of pages read . The Previous metric and not was bound in a transparent way to cover price and left Amazon to some arbitrary in deciding the amounts to be distributed to members of the program, had been highly criticism from all community of authors Independent they had seen their revenues fall in the new service. The need to move to a more transparent and objective was a necessity deeply felt.
The consequences of $ 0.006 on page
Amazon in presenting the new payment system announced a statistics about June 2015 : subscribers read 1900000000 pages Unlimited on Kindle. Whereas the background available Kindle Unlimited is amontato to $ 11 million for the month of June, the British newspaper “ Guardian “has calculated a page read is $ 0.006 . Since there are no pages in an ebook format because it is a liquid, Amazon has developed a counting system that explained in his blog.
Taking a rather rough calculation, based on the data in June 2015, is shows that for the ‘ equivalent of the royalty of a ebook downloaded at a price of 4.99 dollars (author royalty = $ 3.493) must you read 580 pages . In the case of a price to $ 2.99 need 350 pages read to equal the revenue of a download. If it costs $ 1.99 to download the ebook pages read necessary to obtain a similar royalty would be 230.
Hard to understand the consequences of these numbers on the lives of writers who populate this service. One thing stood out instantly. Are favorite works with more pages . The writers must writing not only more , but best because it will have to convince the reader to follow the plot, the characters, the dialogues from cover or far forward as possible. In short, will conquer ‘s attention of player . not you will then water down the content , but increase it quality . And this is not bad as rightly stresses Giuseppe Granieri. If until now the ‘ goal a Writer , a little’ cynically , could be to get buy , now is really to be read in full . It is not just a distinction, and this can be a really factor spontaneous cleaning offer that moves the check from quantity to quality. Will surely change the way you write as pointed Granieri at the conclusion of his analysis.
The return of the mammoth?
winning authors on Kindle Unlimited will be those that publish long text to be read in their entirety. If we were to comment on this state of things we could say that could back models of mammoth great nineteenth-twentieth century European fiction , the great novels-masterpieces Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and our Bacchelli . It is a back you fitting with some trouble to modern mood which tends to restrict the arc time where the system is viewing experience, reading, listening or otherwise.
are However the data show that strong readers not are afraid from ‘ extension a’ work and suffice it to mention the success of authors verbose as Stieg Larsson, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon or Karl Ove Knausgård to name a few. Besides the first consumers service stream of books it is the strong readers .
There is also another aspect that Amazon will send a solution in the future. For the authors of KDP Select is still valid clause of ‘ exclusive that looks something anachronistic and in sharp contrast with the openness and democratization of new services which tend to be inclusive. There are still many things to fix on Kindle Unlimited.
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A Fucecchio, a village in Tuscany halfway between Pisa and Florence, was erected a singular monument to Giuseppe Montanelli, patriot, scholar, political renaissance and great-uncle of the great journalist Indro, anche’egli native of Fucecchio. In the central square of the village, the Montanelli stands standing on a tall pillar with a bandaged right arm across your chest (to testify the wound at the Battle of Curtatone and Montanara) and title of the Constitution liberal Tuscany in the other hand. The figure leans slightly on a stack of books from the base of the figure goes up to sit. The inhabitants of Fucecchio, which by good Tuscan no lack of cynicism and taste of desecration, have dubbed this monument “cacapagine”. That this state is just what the modern writer? A state that Amazon, with its endless antennas, has been able to capture and implement.
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