{"id":11917,"date":"2015-08-06T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-june-just-after-describing-its-proposed\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:22:15","slug":"in-june-just-after-describing-its-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-june-just-after-describing-its-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In June, just after describing its proposed neighbor delivery system, Amazon announced that it would be instituting a new payment system for authors who use its Kindle Select publishing platform (in other words, authors for whom Amazon functions as both publisher and distributor), according to which authors will be paid each time readers turn the page of a book.<\/p>\n<p>As Peter Wayner notes, \u201cinstead of paying the most ambitious, long-winded authors for each page written, Amazon will pay them for each page read.\u201d An analysis of the details by Hern concluded that \u201can author will have to write a 220-page book\u00a0\u2014 and have every page read by every person downloading it\u00a0\u2014 to make the same $1.30 they currently get from a book being downloaded.\u201d Casey Lucas estimates that author royalties could decline by between 60 and\u00a080 percent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/08\/amazon-google-facebook-privacy-bezos\/\">The Amazonization of Everything | Jacobin<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, just after describing its proposed neighbor delivery system, Amazon announced that it would be instituting a new payment system for authors who use its Kindle Select publishing platform (in other words, authors for whom Amazon functions as both publisher and distributor), according to which authors will be paid each time readers turn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-36d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}