What are your thoughts on KU/Amazon author pay structure and the quality of the books?
Forgive me if this has already been discussed in this forum. I’m a big reader. Preferably romance, RH, etc. So for many years Amazon/KU has been my jam. In the last year, I’ve noticed a sharp decline in the quality of new books/new authors coming out in that I have been personally attributing as possibly related to AI. However, I recently watched a video by an Amazon author who said they are NOT paid per book. They are paid “by the number of pages in the book read by the reader.” This hits me as wrong on so many levels and could be so easily manipulated by the authors. Scroll down any thread and you will see people talk about losing interest in a series that drags on. Or books that rehash the same plot point ad nauseum. What is the benefit of writing a good book when you get paid more for writing a longer book? Or dragging that one good book idea and making 5 books out of it? Anyway, before I make my final decision, I wanted to throw this out to fellow RH lovers and see what other opinions on this are.