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Originally Posted by Fbone
With KU1.0 authors were trying to maximize their revenue; short stories, serials.
Now with KU2.0 they are trying to find ways to increase their KENPC and, therefore, their revenue; single line spacing, illustrations, lots of chapter breaks, space before each paragraph.
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Fortunately Amazon has been very smart about KENPC. My understanding is that KENPC is formulated so as to prevent the types of tricks that you mention. To quote from Amazon:
To determine a book's page count in a way that works across genres and devices, we've developed the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC). We calculate KENPC based on standard settings (e.g. font, line height, line spacing, etc.), and we use KENPC to measure the number of pages customers read in your book, starting with the Start Reading Location (SRL) to the end of your book. Amazon typically sets SRL at chapter 1 so readers can start reading the core content of your book as soon as they open it.
This standardized approach allows us to identify pages in a way that works across genres and devices. Non-text elements within books including images, charts and graphs will count toward a book’s KENPC.
But the really impressive thing about KU 2.0, as pointed out by Hugh Howey, Joe Konrath and others is that it encourages authors to write in a way that readers finish the whole book. Personally I call this encouraging quality writing. If an author publishes a 500 page book which is so boring that readers don't get past the first 10 pages, then the author only gets paid for those 10 pages. Some writers of literary fiction should be afraid. Very afraid.