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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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I agree, taking word count into account is one option. But that might lead to long-winded, padded writing. We have too much of that already. So I don't see an obvious solution. And as JSWolf pointed out earlier, this type of measurement could be open to mistakes so that authors don't receive fair recompense. It doesn't help that Amazon doesn't publicize what stats it takes from readers and how it uses them to calculate payments.