Well, Canada, anyway...
It was previously only available in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Maybe the US will be next?
From The Digital Reader:
https://the-digital-reader.com/2020/...nada/#comments
More at the source.
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Kobo Plus currently offers 270,000 ebooks and audiobooks for which can be read for $9.99 CAD per month. If you would like to sign up, you can find the relevant page on Kobo’s website.
If you are an author who wants to put their books in Kobo Plus, you can do so via Kobo Writing Life or via D2D.
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Payment is based on reading time rather than pages read.
https://kobowritinglife.zendesk.com/...ay-publishers-
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Each month, we take the total revenue (we'll call that Monthly Revenue) earned from Kobo Plus subscriptions. We also take the total minutes that all subscribers spent reading that month. (Minutes Read). We divide the Monthly Revenue by the Minutes Read, which allows us to assign a monetary value to each minute of reading (let's call it Value per Minute Consumed). This value will fluctuate month to month based on subscriber number and total reading time.
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Payout is per 300 minutes. After they take their standard 40% cut.
I suppose they went by time so speed readers can't clean then out?
Not sure how much creators might net but something is better than nothing so it might serve as a replacement for permafree.
So, anybody interested in seeing it in the US?