As most authors now know Amazon is going to start paying
authors for the amount of pages read and not for each complete book. I’m not
certain how I feel about this. On 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?
Of course, there are other options for authors. You can
publish with Smashwords or through any of the other hundreds of ebook outlets.
But let’s face it, Amazon is king! I’m not sure how this new policy is going to
change the publishing industry but it will change it. And then what’s next,
paying musicians for how much of a song is listened to?
I, like hundreds of thousands of others, am a slave to
Amazon and how they control their merchandise. The industry is changing and I
will be forced to change with it. I am an author who needs an outlet to reach
his audience and almighty Amazon is my king.
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