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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Authors lose out again in Amazon pay-per-page scam

Company pays authors based on how much of their books have been read, but fraudsters are taking advantage - and it’s not Amazon that suffers

Authors are earning less from Amazon’s new pay-per-page model than they should be, thanks to a rash of scammers taking advantage of the company’s self-publishing platform.

The scammers are exploiting a loophole in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service – which allows subscribers to read an unlimited number of books for a flat monthly fee – to earn much more money from short books than they ever would if they were sold fairly.

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