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Amazon grips authors by the throat. Listen to mystery writer Neil Ostroff:
"As most authors now know Amazon is going to start paying [them] for the amount of pages read and not for each complete book. I'm not certain how I feel about this. One the plus side, it could free readers up to explore more books if they are only going to pay for it if they like it. On the negative, most casual readers never finish a book or do it over a long period of time. And how about if readers skip a section? What will it do to royalties?"
Excellent point. For instance, I read short fiction and often skim like a great aquatic bug, skipping stories hither and yon. This lets me read more genre fiction from unknown authors. But now, so it seems, Amazon will reap the sales, as always, and short change the authors all because I don't read every stinking page.
This is the problem with giantism, whether corporate or governmental. At some point, the behemoth simply acts as it pleases to increase profits or power and the little guy gets rolled.
Read the rest of Neil Ostroff's post at his blog Always Writing.
Note: My Norma Rae-like shot at giantism notwithstanding, the above change only applies to Kindle Unlimited and the Lending Library bit of Amazon Prime. Read more at this place here.
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