Thread: 15 years old scam Amazon's KU for $60,000+ paycheck
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Old 03-13-2016, 04:34 PM   #9
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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.
No, that was the old system. KU 2 pays per actual number of pages read.
Supposedly.
But now the scammers have figured out multiple ways of getting readers to skip to the end of the book directly, "Click HERE to win FREE Kindle Fire", thereby immediately crediting the 'author' with a full read, even if the rest of the book is junk. And since they're scammers, there's good reason to believe the 'readers' clicking are not like you or me, but hired click farms or reading circles.
With the new maximun of 3,000 KENPC pages allowed per book x an average of .0045 cents per page, that's $13+ payout per book, and well worth the thieves' while. And the 3,000 max just started, up til now the sky's been the limit.
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