As of yesterday, Amazon officially moved subscription payments for self-published ebooks in the Kindle Unlimited program to their new system of paying by the number of pages read by subscribers. In an email to participating authors, the company said that in June subscribers read over 1.9 billion pages (as measured by their new standardized page count). From there, authors concluded that the per page payout for July — when Amazon has promised the pool will comprise at least $11 million — will be close to .0058 cents for every page read. But, per Amazon’s procedure of determining the final pool […]
