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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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Thirty pages is not a book, it's a short story. What would make more sense to me is some sort of sliding scale that takes into account both total number of pages and the percentage of pages apparently read. It seems that rewarding authors for longer books would just encourage a lot of padding and extraneous material--liking adding a lengthy author bio, acknowledgments, reviews, etc. up front, knowing full well that a reader is likely to just skip ahead to the actual beginning of the story.