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Amazon to pay self-published authors based on pages read

 

It could soon pay more to write lengthier books, if you are an author self-publishing on Kindle ebook platform.

Starting next month, the e-commerce giant will pay independent authors based on the number of pages read, rather than the number of times their book has been borrowed.

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