So, what`s Amazon up to now, Indies?
I see they’ve
made an announcement about their new concept where they only pay authors of
self-published Kindle books enlisted in the Kindle Select program based on the
amount of content – or pages – the readers actually consume.
As an author with eight books on Amazon, and several in the Kindle
Select program, it will be interesting to see whether this concept fails or not.
I think it will be different for every genre. Short stories should do well,
while novels that are slow to start ought to do poorly. A short story
collection or anthology using this method, I would think, is destined to
take-off!
Lucky me! I’ve recently published a short story collection
and had planned to include it into the Kindle Select program. Now I’m not
entirely sure if that’s a good idea. However, in the service of indie Author’s
everywhere, I will include Waning
Metaphorically into this program and report back with the stats.
I assume there will be a cost-per-page-turned in order to
tally up each books worth to the reader, and those monies handed over to the
author? That’s what I’m getting from this. But what that number per page is, I
haven’t found out as yet.
If you have it, please respond and share.
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