The Problem With the New Kindle Select Plan & How Amazon Should Fix It

I love(d) KDP. Recently, however, Amazon changed how it computes author payments for Kindle Select borrows. Although the letter Amazon sent out describing the program sounded great (the example it gave was 100 borrows x 100 pages read = $1,000 if the total pages read by users in the program were 100 million), the reality is much different. Amazon’s letter also mentioned that the total pages read last month was 17 billion, and the July payout would be $11 million. We therefore see that the amo...