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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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yes 200 pages read in either 1 book or 20 books is a little less than $1.
The old system if a book had 200 pages, 20 pages or 10% had to be read to get roughly $1.34
If the book had 10 pages, 1 page read was $1.34
30 pages was 3 pages read to get the $1.34.
I know many previously full length writers that started doing short stories just for KU and that $1.34 per borrow.
I think Amazon changed to pages read to get longer and better works in KU because the subscribers were tired of finding 90% short stuff (not the word I was actually thinking).
Now the new payout did hurt two groups. Children and the erotica writers.