The news did nothing to cheer the wallet of the authors. Compensation works Unlimited enrolled in Kindle and Kindle lending library, is performed to the read page after a set amount by the American giant. Although the funds intended for them is increasing, the price of a page decreases meanwhile every month since last July – directly impacting revenue from these marketing tools.
In August, the fund to pay authors was valued at $ 11.8 million, against 12.4 million $ for the last month. Since its creation, the fund thus continues to increase. Remember, it accounted for $ 1.2 million at its inception in May 2014.
Cross Evolution payment since its creation:
- May 2014: 1.2 million $
- June 2014: 1.2 million $
- July 2014: 2.5 million $
- August 2014: 4.7 million $
- September 2014: $ 5 million
- October 2014: 5.5 million $
- November 2014: 6.5 million $
- December 2014: $ 7.25 million
- January 2015: 8.5 million $
- February 2015: 8,000,000 $
- March 2015: $ 9.3 million
- April 2015: $ 9.8 million
- May 2015: 10.8 million $
- June 2015: $ 11.3 million
- July 2015: $ 11.5 million
- August 2015: 11.8 million $
- September 2015: $ 12 million
- Octobrer 2015: $ 12.4 million
Yet the authors do not necessarily see the difference in their wallets -change. This is explained by the arrival of new authors, and thus a fall in the price per page read. Last July, a page read reported $ 0.0058, against $ 0.0048 in the month of October.
Since a change in the remuneration, which occurred a few months ago, the authors are paid based on the number of pages read, while they were previously paying for each downloaded item, provided that at least 10 % thereof has been read. This calculation system is called “Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count” in the words of Amazon. A book of paper pages and 278 pages of 535 in its Kindle version according to the tailer. Everything should happen for the best?
The Digital Reader, the fall of the last three months was not a coincidence. He said Amazon had deliberately ensured that the payment of authors decreases during the last three months. This would enable it unilaterally set the amount it allocates to the monthly prize pool for authors. Some denounce amounts downwards when the giant has yet recorded $ 84 million profit in 2Q 2015 – an outstanding result.
Also, if Amazon continues to conceal the number of its subscribers unlimited, it seems invest a lot of money. The merchant, however, agreed last month to reveal the number of pages that have actually been played, and thus paid. So around the world, 2, 366 billion pages were read in September 2015. This should normally lead to a salary of $ 0.00507 per page …
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