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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's a fixed pool so Amazon pays out the same no matter how they distribute it.
On a per page model they may pay less on some individual titles and more on others but as the announcement says, the pool money will be divided by the total number of pages read. All of it.
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I put that badly. Yes, the money available is the same, but it will slant to finished books (which is not a bad thing). And in that regard, I think SOME authors are going to make less than before. It's not all that hard to sample through 10 percent. I often sample that far before abandoning a book. If I were reading KU books, most authors would have been paid for the "borrow." But I abandon probably 75 percent of books I sample. So if they are now paid by the page, the authors who were getting a full payment at 10 percent are not going to get paid very much if readers do a lot of sampling.
Shrug. I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I don't really know. So long as Amazon requires exclusivity it's a deal killer for me as an author. From a reading standpoint, I gave SCRIBD a try. I don't like it enough to pay for it. I want to read from the entire pool--not pay 10 dollars a month to browse a select list that sometimes doesn't have what I want (which means another 10 dollars to buy a specific book). I do read a lot of indies, so KU should work for me--but I also read trad authors...and in that respect it would mean I'd end up paying more for books than I currently pay. I don't always get to read the books I want now, but I'm certainly not going to subscribe and then feel forced to get my monies worth by staying inside KU.