2/ The Kindle dashboard allows you to enroll your book in the program or not. It's plus revenue above book sales.
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3/ Here are actual details. https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A156OS90J7RDN … But then you get "commentary" like this. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/11692026/Amazons-to-pay-Kindle-authors-only-for-pages-read.html …
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4/ Hair-trigger author rights sensitivities leading to wilfully idiotic misreadings of announcements suggest this: bad writers are scared
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5/ I saw some FB threads with people seriously screaming about rights and thin-end-of-wedge. Most have never seen KDP dashboard
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6/ But to forgive their idiocy and play out the sort of scenario they fear the most: what if norms shift so Kindle Unlimited becomes norm?
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7/ Right now, of my 3 Kindle books, one is enrolled in KU. Ratio of sales to KU borrows so far this month is 61:11. That could flip to 1:71
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8/ This scares the crap out of bad writers because they KNOW most buyers read only a fraction.
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9/ I've seen people make up bullshit scenarios like "what if I dip and browse? Doesn't author deserve full price?"
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10/ No s/he does not. Corner cases make for bad rules. If somebody reads 10% chances are overwhelmingly that they didn't want to read more
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11/ It's the same unbundling logic that killed the practice of bundling bad songs with hits and charging more. Just technically more complex
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12/ Yes you can game this in various ways, but overall it's good. More information, lower prices, more readers, bigger market
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13/ But why not try something utterly radical: if you want to write a 100,000 word tome, try to *retain the reader's attention* all the way
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