Triggers payment at 20% read? Pays list price? They will be flooded with overpriced porn shorts. Just like KU did in its first variation. This is even worse as they would pay by list price so not only can they pump in the porn shorts, they get to set what they get paid then by pricing high.
I remember all the 10-20 page garbage porns that were all over KU which is why I had to cancel my subscription. Until they changed it to actual pages read then I re-subscribed.
I am sure all those shorts are still laying around in the drawers. On Amazon they just packed them into sets and flooded the store again with them.
There they can just take them apart again and rake in the dough. They don't care about actual sales. They can price their stuff 4.99 and one only has to read like 2 pages and kaching.
I say good luck. Trade publishers aren't going to want to be in there with that in mind. Now if they did manage that, I might even look into buying a low end Kobo just for a subscription. If they could get trade publishers like Scribd has.
It will be fun to watch authors obsess yet about another service like they already do about KU payouts each month.
