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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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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.