How to Pay Authors of a Kindle? – Smartweek

In recent years, Amazon and publishing market struggled to share the same visions . Frequent allegations to the Giant Jeff Bezos, who would sometimes discouraged the purchase of books by certain authors or published by certain publishers, considered “annoying” (for more, see http://www.smartweek.ch/ amazon-or-the-literature-to-the-commodity-marketing /). Frequent were the protests of those who do not seem to perceive a fair return from their books sold on Amazon, especially if they are in Kindle format .

For groped to mediate in any way in this complicated relationship between the site and “kindle authors”, Amazon is experimenting with a new evaluation method to determine the revenue corresponding to each author depending on the pages read by the user, and not the copies . The experiment, called “Kindle Unlimited Pages Read” , reaches out to those authors who “ calling for greater convergence between the gain and the length of the books they read and how readers “as the company reported. This new system will come into force in early July, and Amazon will monitor the time spent by readers on every page: a standard time passed, it will consider that the reader has read the page in question, and the corresponding author will be paid . Amazon adds that “ the author of a 100 page book that was purchased and completely read 100 times will earn $ 1,000. The author of a 200 page book that was purchased 100 times but only read half on average earn $ 1,000 as well . “

As it was presented, the initiative may have both positive and negative effects: on one hand could penalize those who are used to writing books very long, that many readers may not read the entire , on the other, and precisely because of this fact , could encourage authors to make sure that every page accounts in their work, and push the reader to continue with its reading . Expects at this point an answer to this last idea launched by Amazon from the other face of the contest, or the authors themselves and publishers.

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