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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
Unless their fraud detection saw something. Could have been a false positive though.
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Thanks BH,
That’s exactly what I’m saying it was, an easily eliminated one.
I acknowledge the detection was reasonable. What I contended was the lockout wasn’t, especially with no double checking of my account hadn’t been hacked, and Amazon’s deliberately hiding the results.
As for page size and also reads etc - it can now be definitively seen and factually verified because of supporting links that …..
Dr Drib in #148 just the other day helpfully provided this link
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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
........... "The only basis to use is that Amazon calculates a page to be about 187 words and for every 1,000 pages read; authors get between $4.00 and $5.00. On average Amazon pays around $4.78 per 1,000 pages."
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https://justpublishingadvice.com/is-...r-for-authors/
So your 1000-word recipe book on cooking chicken gizzards earns you approx. $4.78.
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and Shari in;
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Originally Posted by shalym
........... The amount paid for this "book" is truly minuscule, since the per page rate (for April) is $0.0046601941747573. So the book has to be at least 3 pages for the author to make a penny each time it's read to the end........... Shari
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So we can see that Amazon is said to be paying on an assumed 187 words per page, at April’s $0.0046601941747573 for 1,000 pages gives $4.67.