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KINDLE UNLIMITED PAGES READ
Amazon paid $0.00514 per KENP read in August, 2015.
Compare that to the $0.005779 pages read rate in July, 2015.
That’s a drop of 11%. If you had 10,000 pages read in July, would earned $57.79, but for the same 10,000 pages read in August, you only earned $51.40.
On the one hand, an 11% drop is significant, but on the other hand, unless you had a million pages read through Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime, that 11% doesn’t amount to a whole lot.
And if you had a million pages read, you’re thriving in the program (compared to most authors).
But the concern really isn’t over one drop in the payout of 11%.
The concern extends beyond that. 11% is a pretty sizable change. It’s not a small fluctuation.
So one concern is stability.
If it drops 11% in August, another 11%…
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