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Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read

Posted by Soulskill on from the more-lucrative-ways-to-slice-up-the-pie dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Amazon has a new plan to keep self-published authors honest: they're only going to pay them when someone actually reads a page. Peter Wayner at the Atlantic explores how this is going to change the lives of the authors — and the readers. Fat, impressive coffee table books are out if no one reads them. Thin, concise authors will be bereft. Page turners are in.

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  1. A new plan to keep editors honest by Sangui5 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Record when they F up. Because of course they'll silently fix it w/out notice.

    Amazon has a new plan to keep authors honest: a href='http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/amazon-publishing-authors-payment-writing/396269/'>they're only going to pay them when someone actually reads a page. Peter Wayner at the Atlantic explores how this is going to change the lives of the authors — and the readers. Fat, impressive coffee table books are out if no one reads them. Thin, concise authors will be bereft. Page turners are in.

    Hence, a record. Seriously, just leave off the opening < on a href? And then post it?

  2. Re:hey DICE newfags by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well apparently at least two moderators think the new layout that fucks things up is superior, because they downmodded me.