Amazon's New Plan to Pay Authors Every Time Someone Turns a Page
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#2It takes way too long for the article to note that this only applies to books enrolled in Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program, which allows readers unlimited access to opted-in books for $9.99/month.
Books regularly published through KDP are unaffected.
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#3Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
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#4Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
This only applies to Kindle Unlimited books, aka they're Netflix-like service that loans you books as long as your subscription is active.
It's about as acceptable that Netflix knows exactly what minutes and seconds of any streaming videos I've watched.
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#5Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
Kindle has always synched your last "read to" spot across devices. It's a feature.
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#6Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
Acceptable in what sense? Users know about it and accept it, therefore it must be acceptable. I don't think you can opt out, though.
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#7This is to address people gaming the old system by turning in 10-30 page books of barely readable garbage. Under that system authors were paid ~$1.30 per book each time the reader passed the minimum 10% book length.
This encouraged a flight to short, low quality books. This new plan should wash out low quality work as it's no longer profitable to publish pamphlets with great titles and near Markov-chain levels of nonsense.
Re: Amazon's New Plan to Pay Authors Every Time Someone Turns a Page
#8This is to address people gaming the old system by turning in 10-30 page books of barely readable garbage. Under that system authors were paid ~$1.30 per book each time the reader passed the minimum 10% book length. This encouraged a flight to short, low quality books. This new plan should wash out low quality work as it's no longer profitable to publish pamphlets with great titles and near Markov-chain levels of non…
What about something like "Capital in the 21st Century"?
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#9Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
When you read part of an ebook, set it aside, and come back, you want it to remember what page you were on. You also want this to work if you switch between devices. It is technically difficult to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on.
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#10Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
In terms of data collection, I think this one is actually pretty harmless.