Quote:
Originally Posted by Joykins
I recently downloaded a bunch of Scribd book and read them offline while on a road trip (10 hours in car = 3 YA books finished in one day). Does that mean the author gets no metrics on them at all? Presumably Scribd can still tell when I finally connect to wifi that I've read them at some point during the week?
|
My answer is based on observations only, but in that case, what I *think* the author would see is a start date and then an end date with near 100 percent showing. My impression is that SCRIBD grabs the metrics once a day, so in your case, it would grab a start date during the first day. Then when you returned them, or turned on wifi, that would be the end date with 100 percent--whatever you read, along with the payment data.
In the case of someone sampling my book (which has happened once) I saw it was read 7 percent. I get something like 30 cents for the "sample" -- and by the next day the reader hadn't read past that, so SCRIBD sent the 30 cents, minus smash cut, etc. Start and end date were right next to each other. I assume that if the reader ever goes back and reads more (this is how I was reading on SCRIBD. I sampled a bunch of books, stored them in my library and then gradually went in and read some. But the backlight bothers the heck out of me so I stopped after the first month). Anyway, if that reader ever goes back and reads more, it would count as a different "sale" -- say they read the required 20 percent to trigger the full book payment. I'm not sure WHAT I'd see--but I think it would be a new start date and a new end date and the full payment--possibly minus the 30 cents.
In other words, the data is not all that detailed. Just enough is provided so that we understand why we might make 30 cents versus a full payment. Amazon doesn't have any data metrics--we either get paid or don't.
It's a little confusing because if someone starts the sample, turns off wifi and reads it, but then doesn't check back in for some time, it's going to trigger a small payment and then possibly the "full" payment later.
Not that I'm complaining. I think it's a great thing and I'm happy to be on board.