The "break the story into little chunks" reminds me of a Kindle Unlimited revenue-maximizing scheme: originally Amazon paid KU authors by how many "e-books" were downloaded through KU. So you'd make 5x as much off KU readers if you had five 40-page ebooks than if you had one 200 page book. Recently, Amazon switched to paying authors by the number of pages readers read, so there was no incentive to break a story into mulitple "ebooks".
I don't know if that was this author's motive, or if the author just feels that each novelette stands well on its own, or what. But the superficial appearance is not a positive one, for me. :|
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Date: 2015-08-26 04:10 pm (UTC)The "break the story into little chunks" reminds me of a Kindle Unlimited revenue-maximizing scheme: originally Amazon paid KU authors by how many "e-books" were downloaded through KU. So you'd make 5x as much off KU readers if you had five 40-page ebooks than if you had one 200 page book. Recently, Amazon switched to paying authors by the number of pages readers read, so there was no incentive to break a story into mulitple "ebooks".
I don't know if that was this author's motive, or if the author just feels that each novelette stands well on its own, or what. But the superficial appearance is not a positive one, for me. :|