On Amazon, you can publish your own eBook that people can read on their Kindles and other reading devices. They pay a commission if people buy your book, but now they are rolling out a subscription service where people get to read books based on the money they pay for their subscription. An author signs up for the subscription service, which means people with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can read their book without paying for it.
Readers that subscribe can use their Kindle Unlimited all-you-can-read subscription, or read books via their Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL). Authors are not paid a commission when their book is bought. Instead, they are paid a commission based on how many pages the reader actually reads of their book. The …show more content…
The size and/or length of a page is often determined by the reading device and not by the book itself, so Amazon have created a standardized approach based on what they call a normalized page count. This means that page count is determined by content and not by size. This may stop people filling the first few pages of their books with …show more content…
Doesn’t this mean that more comprehensive, sophisticated and even more intelligent books will have to lower themselves to easily understandable books that read like news flashes? Won’t it also mean that writers become afraid of hitting the topic with complex ferocity and/or feel the need to sell the book as they are writing it? Won’t they have to insert text that subtly says, “Keep reading, you are getting to the good bit?” In essence, it could turn a generation of book writers into online article writers.
Pro - It may teach writers how to create sellable text
This could be considered a downside because it makes authors more concerned about getting people to flip the page than it does making a useful point in the book. However, there are many poor quality writers creating Kindle eBooks that could use a good lesson in creating books that sell and books that keep people reading. It may punish good authors, but it may also help poor quality authors make a lot of
Readers that subscribe can use their Kindle Unlimited all-you-can-read subscription, or read books via their Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL). Authors are not paid a commission when their book is bought. Instead, they are paid a commission based on how many pages the reader actually reads of their book. The …show more content…
The size and/or length of a page is often determined by the reading device and not by the book itself, so Amazon have created a standardized approach based on what they call a normalized page count. This means that page count is determined by content and not by size. This may stop people filling the first few pages of their books with …show more content…
Doesn’t this mean that more comprehensive, sophisticated and even more intelligent books will have to lower themselves to easily understandable books that read like news flashes? Won’t it also mean that writers become afraid of hitting the topic with complex ferocity and/or feel the need to sell the book as they are writing it? Won’t they have to insert text that subtly says, “Keep reading, you are getting to the good bit?” In essence, it could turn a generation of book writers into online article writers.
Pro - It may teach writers how to create sellable text
This could be considered a downside because it makes authors more concerned about getting people to flip the page than it does making a useful point in the book. However, there are many poor quality writers creating Kindle eBooks that could use a good lesson in creating books that sell and books that keep people reading. It may punish good authors, but it may also help poor quality authors make a lot of