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Originally Posted by Mistyfarm
I queried the "payments" because it does not make sense to me that Amazon can programme reams and reams of code to provide their mega billion corporation with great profits and power but I'm asked to believe they can't filter out a 1 page "book" and are then also dumb enough to pay the "author" because everyone who clicks on it has technically read the whole book??
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How is it dumb?
They pay authors per page read.
If a book is only one page long, they only get paid for one page read.
An author who posted ten one page books, which were all read fully, would earn the same as an author who posted one ten page long book which was read fully.
An author who posted ten one page books, only one of which was read, would be paid the same as an author who posted one ten page book, only one page of which was read.
One of the reasons Amazon switched to the page by page model was exactly to stop authors fiddling the system by breaking books up into multiple parts:
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The previous (author remuneration) model (for KU program) was based on a 10 per cent reading rate. If a subscriber to the service read up to the 10 per cent level, then the author got paid. Authors responded creatively to the previous model. Thompson says, "Some authors responded to that system by writing really short books, like 10 pages. Somebody reads one page, the author gets paid. Authors are a smart lot. They were figuring it out. We were responding to that and switched over to this per page system."
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...w/50829518.cms