Okay. I hate what Bezos does to his workers, hate how he co-opted the NY Times, and can’t stand the guy as much as any other sane person. But there’s a way we can make him lose money while you read books.
This works only if you’re a heavy reader. I promise it will remove all of your justifiable guilt about giving him money.
I’ll use an Australian example because it’s Australian numbers I know
Kindle Unlimited costs $13.99 AUD
For every page you read with Kindle Unlimited, I get around 1/3 of a penny.
If you do the math, once you’ve exceeded 4200 Kindle pages in a month, Amazon is paying the author(s) more money than you’re paying Amazon.
That’s 10 and a half books. I’ve seen the prodigious output (input?) from some of you readers. That’s barely more than a week’s worth of reading.
I think nine of my books are on Kindle Unlimited. And if you’re willing to play this “kill them by a thousand cuts” game, there are over 90,000 ebooks on Amazon enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
Fire at will.
Read a good book or a dozen.
My understanding was that the money paid to authors from the Kindle Unlimited program was a fixed percentage of the subscription revenue, divided up according to page reads.
In other words, if the total pages read goes up, the royalty per page drops.
Is that not correct?
You are correct. Subscribers to Kindle Unlimited who read fewer than 10-ish books subsidise those who read more.