Unlimited Kindle, the Amazon digital book reading service “unlimited” changes its name and is now called Kindle subscription.
Why such a change? And what does that imply?
Amazon began in accordance with French law following the famous report Engel (read our articles) on subscriptions with unlimited digital books.
This compliance requires a new device beginning by replacing the name Kindle Unlimited by Subscription Kindle.
The companies specialized in the field as Youboox , YouScribe or Izneo had six months to get into the nails, Amazon also. The key word is to be consistent: the publisher is master, he sets the price of digital books he publishes
The principles of! bases established for a subscription offer digital books complies
• the subscription provider acquires books exploitation rights and sets the price as publisher;
• each vendor sets a price for its range of books and the amount of the subscription is the sum of these individual awards to which is added the costs of access to the platform;
• subscriptions paid by customers abounds monthly account is taken on which the price of each individual consultation established by the publisher, within the limits of available appropriations.
Each subscription service has worked to be knighted and especially comply with the law under penalty of closing.
Amazon had remained silent , did not respond to government directives during the announcement of the required compliance but respected the six months imposed by the French government for each service to act in compliance, that period expired on December 9 .
Kindle Unlimited Subscription VS Kindle
While Amazon offers its customers?
First, the price of subscription does not change, sesame to read ebooks in large numbers is set at 9.99 euros.
Note that Amazon no longer talk about reading “unlimited” because it is no longer the case
The message to customers is as follows:. ‘ The Subscription Edition gives you the freedom to discover. Try new genres, test new authors, and dive into new adventures with access to more than one million titles, including more than 25,000 in French. . “
If nothing changes for the final drive, one thing is certain, things change for the remuneration of independent authors and publishers. They now have to determine a price per page if they want to enter the Subscription Program Kindle.
So what about self-published authors?
€ 0.0001, € 0.0002, € 0.0003
Some self-published authors decide to enter the KDP Select program. This program gives certain advantages in theory independent writers. But above all, entering KDP Select one accepts de facto be read in Kindle Unlimited / Subscription Kindle.
And then, surprise!
Amazon contacted the authors, Jean Baptiste Viet, sent us this message received from Amazon: “ On December 9, 2015, our program Kindle Unlimited was adjusted slightly in France. Do not worry, these changes do not impact your earnings.
First, it is now called “Kindle Subscription” in France.
Second, under the new system set up following the recommendations of the mediator of the book, subscribers residing in France buy credits consultation when they pay their subscription.
The credits are shared between all subscribers residing in France, allowing to leave to subscribers living in France the opportunity to read a large number of ebooks included in their subscription Kindle “
Result, the author / editor is invited to set its price to page: € 0.0001, € 0.0002, € 0.0003. So far, the authors touched € 0.005 per page read, so there is a difference with the price offered in the new formula.
According
our author witness, these changes will not cause big changes in the remuneration of India because Amazon is expected to offset this price with the global fund dedicated to authors (12.4 million $ in October 2015) .
The decision to remunerate authors to read page is not new , what is new is the installment amount pricing of the page by the authors themselves.
And publishers?
If indie authors must fix their prices, publishers also must do as some have agreed to enter the program Kindle subscription ( former KU). What is that price or what are these prices?
Amazon released the focus of readers to information so they know how publishers fixed the price of the page read
To reassure the customer Amazon explains. “ Following the recommendations of the Ombudsman on the Book service to reading digital books via subscription, publishers established in France have set a price per page for their ebooks available in the Kindle Subscription program.
This award is detailed on page below for your information only.
This award is included in the price Kindle Subscription program. Customers do not have to pay the following prices plus the price of Kindle Subscription program. “
By following this development, e-commerce giant continues its policy of “transparency” to its customers .
The price to the Vendor page
When you look at the picture presented by Amazon on price per page set by the publishers, the least we can say is that it is more qu’extensible.
You should know that there are few publishers in the subscription program Amazon. Among those who entered there are: Bragelonne, Castelmore the Chronicle Publishing The Publishing Delpierre, Éditions du Riez, Claw Ink, Hauteville, Youth
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Here are some examples of prices / page for the editors: For a book of less than 101 pages, the price is set at € 0.024. For a book of 101-200 pages the price rises to € 0.033.
But the book has more pages unless the price is high. For example: For a book of 201 pages to 300 pages, the price per page is set at € 0.023, again the difference is important
And she falling for a book of over 500 pages € 0.011, but the price is “compensated” by the number of pages. He will be the ROI to date? We are entitled to ask when you consider that the average rate of reading a digital book is about 10% of the entire book!
But other vendors have chosen much lower salaries that are similar to the various prices offered to independent authors page.
For example, the Musardine sets a single price to € 0.0002, Fleurus a price of € 0.001 page.
As for Eyrolles, it is a price to page based on the title of the book that has been set. For example, the book “ I create my company abroad – Keys to success ” was attached to the price page to € 0.03627 / page, “ I ‘m tired of shouting “is € 0.01898.
In short, an impressive gas factory was established, transparent certainly for the reader, but what puzzles for data bases managers, accountability and compensation to authors.
Editors and the authors damn interest in writing good books, so that the reader does not abandon subscriber reading and path. They also offer interest books with moderate paging to make it profitable in the end!
The question is whether the public will join because we will have beautiful plants up to read, hair cut into 4 or 1000, if publishers do not come more in these programs, the player may get tired for lack of a sufficiently attractive catalog.
lovers, headlock, welcome to the wonderful world of books
