{"id":16632,"date":"2015-11-04T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16632"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:14:59","slug":"amazon-to-slash-kindle-unlimited-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16632","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to slash Kindle Unlimited payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smashwords.com\/2015\/11\/amazon-lowers-kindle-unlimited-payouts.html\">Smashwords<\/a><\/strong> blog post reports <strong>Amazon<\/strong> slashing author payouts\u00a0as\u00a0<strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> fails to impress India readers with the\u00a0<strong>$9.99 monthly eBook subscription<\/strong>. The online retail giant is dropping the fee to <strong>$3<\/strong> and taking the difference out of authors&#8217; pockets.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Amazon<\/strong> changing the deal again so soon after its summertime switch to <strong>pay-by-the-page<\/strong>, it looks like industry insiders were right about the <strong>Netflix for eBooks<\/strong>\u00a0business model being a no-win scenario\u00a0that only works if authors are kept in the poorhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Will exclusive &#8220;select&#8221; Indies continue to underwrite the Kindle-maker&#8217;s global ambitions by taking a smaller &#8220;share,&#8221; or will they head for the nearest door?<\/p>\n<p>Last I heard, there is still a professional eBook market out there that actually pays royalties to independent\u00a0authors for each title sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Smashwords blog post reports Amazon slashing author payouts\u00a0as\u00a0Kindle Unlimited fails to impress India readers with the\u00a0$9.99 monthly eBook subscription. The online retail giant is dropping the fee to $3 and taking the difference out of authors&#8217; pockets. With Amazon changing the deal again so soon after its summertime switch to pay-by-the-page, it looks like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16632\">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":[3,4,5,8,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632"}],"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=16632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16641,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions\/16641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}