But with Kindle Unlimited, you run into the "Someone Else's Money" problem.
Say a user reads the first page of 100 different books—they can do that, because opening each new book has zero marginal cost for the user. Does Amazon now need to pay authors for 100 books?
I don't know how Netflix payouts work but I have to imagine that viewer time is taken into account.
Say a user reads the first page of 100 different books—they can do that, because opening each new book has zero marginal cost for the user. Does Amazon now need to pay authors for 100 books?
I don't know how Netflix payouts work but I have to imagine that viewer time is taken into account.