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Originally Posted by Rizla
The 10% rule has little to do with readers. It is about Amazon maximizing revenue from KU. It enables Amazon to pay less to authors from the pot, at least as far as I understand it.
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The other ebook subscription services also have a requirement for some of the book to be read before they pay out. The only one that doesn't is the Amazon Prime 1 ebook per month deal. But Scribd and Oyster pay out as a percentage of list price, not some random figure they decide to make up a month later. That's the main gripe about Amazon's subscription. I'm not sure how it could be fixed though, if they paid a percentage people would just bump up their list price. But I do think something that takes word count into consideration is needed, just to stop the pamphleteers.