Quote:
Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
SCRIBD bases their payout on list price, while Amazon bases it on the total amount of books borrowed during a month.
|
There is a price point I won't borrow - and that is each time a free book in KU looks interesting. Instead of borrowing, I purchase it. Is that screwing the author as well? There shouldn't be so many different especially different price options.
It also depends who reads the books - my wife's PW probably goes through 15 or more KU books each months. I don't have that much time to read, and usually the books I borrow tend to be longer per book. So my authors get screwed since they are in the minority compared to my wife's authors. But they get screwed too, because we are well below the $1.35 that Amazon has through our $9.99 subscription. But I guess it evens out, as many books my wife borrows are series with many smallish books - but then the author gets much less per book, but still more per series. Unless, of course, we are infact typical KU subscribers and every author gets a lot less than the $1.35 per read.
In a way the authors do not get lost sales from us - if it wasn't for KU, they would get paid even less. Per read it is less, but a lot more is read when you never have to worry about spending too much - already budgeted ahead of time.