{"id":16225,"date":"2015-06-16T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16225"},"modified":"2015-06-16T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:44:10","slug":"amazon-will-rankle-short-story-writers-with-changes-to-kindle-unlimited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16225","title":{"rendered":"Amazon will rankle short story writers with changes to Kindle Unlimited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/digital\/content-and-e-books\/article\/67147-amazon-updates-ku-koll-royalty-terms.html\"><strong>Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/a> reports on changes <strong>Amazon<\/strong> is making to its <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> &#8220;all you can eat&#8221; eBook subscription service. Now <strong>Amazon<\/strong> is\u00a0going to pay authors based on each page read. (This is bound to rankle the short story writers who\u00a0were cleaning up under the old &#8220;10% read for a full share&#8221; system.)<\/p>\n<p>What exactly constitutes a &#8220;page&#8221; when it comes to reflowable text? I know. I know. <strong>Amazon<\/strong> will\u00a0produce a formula similar to what it\u00a0uses to determine the amount added to the monthly <strong>KDP Select global fund <\/strong>from which<strong> Unlimited authors<\/strong> are paid their shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers Weekly reports on changes Amazon is making to its Kindle Unlimited &#8220;all you can eat&#8221; eBook subscription service. Now Amazon is\u00a0going to pay authors based on each page read. (This is bound to rankle the short story writers who\u00a0were cleaning up under the old &#8220;10% read for a full share&#8221; system.) What exactly constitutes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16225\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,11,4,8,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16233,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions\/16233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}