Some Kindle book authors to be paid per page read – CTV News

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Published Tuesday, June 23, 2015 7:29 AM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday , June 23, 2015 7:31 AM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon on Monday said it will start paying writers of e-books on its Kindle and Kindle Unlimited Owner’s Lending Library services based on how many pages are read instead of the number of downloads.

“We’re making this switch in response it received great feedback from the authors who asked us to better align payout with the length of books and how much customers read, “the US-based online retailer said in a blog post.

” Under the new payment method, you’ll be paid for each individual page of your customers read book , the first time they read it. “

The change, Which Amazon said Applies only that authors who self-publish on the Kindle, Amazon’s own e-book reader, will take effect in July.

That Amazon said it developed a way to normalize page counts across devices and genres that account for differences in font size, line spacing, and more.

The Seattle-based company will continue the practice of setting a monthly Kindle Direct Publishing Select Global fund, the money from Which will be divided between the authors based on pages viewed instead of numbers of digital books downloaded.

Some Critics of using book downloads are divvy payments argued That it favored short works, while the new system of calculation could wind up rewarding longer suspenseful books or ‘cliff-hangers’ at the expense of other genres.

Kindle Unlimited access it offers more than 800,000 e-books along with thousands of Audio books for a monthly subscription fee of $ 10.