From the beginning of July, a clutch of authors self-publishing on Amazon’s site will no longer be reimbursed based on how many people download their books. Instead, the company has announced, those operating through the site’s Kindle Unlimited and Lending Library book borrowing services will be paid according to how far customers actually get through their books.
Amazon says the move is a response to “great feedback” from authors, who had asked that the company “better align payout with the length of books and how much customers read”. Authors of longer books, who were presumably pushing for change in the first place, may be a little disgruntled to find that the new system may result in them earning less than before.
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