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Old 03-13-2016, 01:24 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
Am I understanding correctly that Amazon pays the KU authors by the page count rather than the proportion of the book supposedly read? So that the payment is the same for a 200-page book read completely, and a 400-page book read to page 200? That's just dumb, even before these scamming schemes enter into it.
It's not dumb at all. Prior to the introduction of this, authors were releasing serial novels to game the system, because the author got paid the same amount for a 30 page book as for a 300 page book, so splitting a 300 page book into 10 sections resulted in potentially 10x the income.
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