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ore take a close look at these numbers and you ll see how much money he is actually getting paid this month from amazon did i mention he s only 15 a lot of you may look at this and think it s fake how can a 15 year old possibly make 70 000 in a month online from selling ebooks on amazon the world is changing and fast opportunities are out there to make money and a lot of it it doesn t matter how old you are where you came from what your circumstances are etc authors and readers does this make you angry it should you ve been lied to and cheated not just by the scammers but by amazon primarily amazon really scammers suck but we all know they re exploiting a loophole that was created by amazon s short sightedness and could have been prevented by amazon in the first place the scammers are scammers and they re providing a poor customer experience to be sure but amazon bears the brunt of the blame here let s not lose sight of that if amazon s focus is customer centric then their kindle unlimited program is a giant fail ku 1 0 was called kink unlimited because authors many who hadn t started out writing erotica jumped on the erotica shorts bandwagon and the market was flooded with them but ku 2 0 is now being called krap unlimited because of all of these crappy scam books that claim to have great content but really only contain a bunch of garbage and a click bait link up front to take readers to the end so the author of the book can get paid for all of those pages and when readers find these word salad books do they think oh geez a scammer what a jerk no they think welp everything they say about self publishing and indies is true their books suck thanks amazon for perpetuating that myth and while the readers have to wade through crap and boy do they i thought keyword stuffed titles weren t allowed amazon authors are getting hit the hardest under ku 2 0 not only are we getting paid less than half a cent per word read these junk books are forcing legitimate authors to split the global fund pot with them the rate we re being paid per page just keeps dropping gee i wonder why let s take a look shall we 6 32 december rate decrease 10 72 january rate decrease we can thank the scammers for that and here are some more numbers for you amazon claimed recently that pages read were up by 25 but i know that i didn t see a pages read increase of 25 did you i bet you didn t want to know why because those pages read were click bait scammer reads that s why i can t prove it but other authors have speculated as much and i believe they re right take a look at this graph courtesy of my author friend michelle keep she s awesome btw smart as a whip and writes great books and provides amazing services to authors check her out before november 2015 the pages read increased steadily for months by about 100 million ish a month then in november 2015 there was a 350 million pages read increase from the previous month a pretty sharp increase but we d seen increases similar to it before from december to january the year before then between december and january look at the huge rise there were 700 million more pages read in that month how do we explain that christmas rush hm maybe historically speaking though the program increases pretty steadily on that graph but it started spiking in november and continued to climb drastically far more than it ever had before in december and january let s look at the actual numbers from november 2015 to december 2015 the pages read increased by 347 751 042 about 350 million from december 2015 to january 2016 the pages read increased by 716 220 032 about 700 million can kindlemas account for this gigantic rise can we just chalk it up to christmas growth well let s look at the year before december 2014 shows 1 154 321 678 pages read 1 1 billion january 2015 shows 1 402 376 812 pages read 1 4 billion between december 2014 and january 2015 that s an increase of only 248 055 134 about 250 million that s about 1 3 of the increase we saw between december 2015 and january of 2016 which was an increase of 716 220 032 about 700 million historically speaking this giant increase is suspect so let s go back and look at this year s dramatic jump december 2015 2 929 051 855 pages read 2 9 billion january 2016 3 645 271 887 pages read 3 6 billion if we add those two numbers we get 6 574 323 742 6 5 billion pages read now just for chucks and giggles let s subtract the average historical christmas kindlemas jump which last year we saw was about 250 million from that total or hell let s go a little further let s add to that historical average and say we should have historically seen about a 300 million pages read increase from dec 2015 jan 2016 if we do that we re left with a 763 971 074 difference there s that shocking inexplicable 750 million pages read increase for speculation s sake let s say that huge page read increase is actually the result of scammers just for argument s sake let s say they re the ones who have caused this dramatic rise in pages read if you translate those pages read into dollars multiplying it by the last known pages read amount amazon paid out which was 0 0041 per page that comes to about 3 1 million dollars that s a lot of money o okay i get it i hear you that maybe it s an exaggeration maybe amazon did have a big jump in program growth this year because they were pushing kindle unlimited around christmas time and offering discounts okay that s possible so let s account for that even if natural growth increased enormously this year what if scammers accounted for just 1 3 of that 750 million increase in pages read that s still a million dollars out of the pot but that s not all folks no because not only are these scammers stealing money out of my pocket and every author s pocket who participates in the kdp select program they are getting all star bonuses on top of it just to add a little insult to injury and rub some salt in those wounds amazon awards all star bonuses to its top sellers in the kdp select program some of those bonuses are 25 000 scammers most definitely got bonuses last month and legitimate authors who have gotten them all along for being top sellers discovered that their usual pages read didn t qualify the bar had been set suddenly higher and not by real authors but by scammers and amazon could have prevented all of this they could have anticipated all of these issues just as they could have anticipated the problem of erotica surfacing on children s kindles and done something proactive and preemptive about that but amazon works like the pharmaceutical companies they make a lot more money ignoring root causes and treating symptoms the question now is what are they going to do about it and is it going to hurt i m afraid the answer to the latter question is yes as to the former one well they ll treat the symptoms again i m sure they ve already screwed over legitimate authors claiming they now have toc and bonus content issues in their books whether amazon was aiming at the scammers or not we re collateral damage as usual and frankly i m beyond angry i m appalled i ve become an unwitting participant in this scam because amazon lied to me amazon informed me in no uncertain terms that skipping over content in book would not result in pages read but they lied how can i ever trust them again how can you whatever trust i did have ha has been completely decimated i don t even trust their royalty reports at this point and you know what really sucks thanks to amazon s deception i ve been cheating other authors without realizing it i suppose if i were in the hunger games which is exactly what this whole thing feels like i d just end up dead i don t have the stomach for this sort of zero sum competition they ve set up in kdp select between authors but like katniss i don t have a lot of choice if i want to feed my family in the end the worst thing of all at least for me is amazon s stranglehold on the market they ve forced me into this horrible socialist program of theirs where it is a zero sum game and i have to fight or die if you want to make a living at this amazon has created an environment where we re all getting in the same bread line and fighting each other for crumbs we re all hungry and getting skinnier every day and omg if one person in the comments says you re not forced into the program you have a choice i will delete you so fast it will make your head spin like linda blair we ll talk about amazon s algorithms and how they weigh the visibility of kdp select and the decreasing ability to make a living on any other vendor some other time okay authors when we were actually selling books did we feel we were cheating each other out of dollars nope because we knew there was arguably an unlimited amount of dollars to be had competition in the marketplace is great that s good for the ecosystem but competition for a pot of something that way lies this madness and that s all on amazon they created this kdp select monster and remember that their whole company is run at a loss in effect amazon is being subsidized by their shareholders authors keep complaining about nook and apple and kobo and want to know why no other retailer is challenging amazon for marketshare the real answer is because they can t afford to they aren t being subsidized and we as a culture have created the monster that is amazon that unfortunately is on us posted by selena kitt at 8 00 pm 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels amazon amazon fail dave koziel ebooks ethics indies jeff bezos kindle unlimited marketshare monopsony publishing scam scammers selena kitt self publishing shareholders subscription subsidized friday february 12 2016 they re making my book into a porn movie green light on babysitting the baumgartners they re making my book babysitting the baumgartners into an adult film yep you heard me right d we got the official green light from adam and eve this week the amazingly talented kay brandt will be directing and as for the cast holy hell scroll down you won t even believe the hotness am i the first indie author to have their book made into an adult film oh wait no kay filmed her book safe landings as an adult film last year and she was nominated for an avn award to boot for best director adam and eve is venturing into new exciting territory folks i think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship perhaps even a marriage made in heaven we all know fifty shades of grey was made into a mainstream much anticipated film but many fans were left a little disappointed why well let s be honest because all the juicy parts of the book had to be left on the cutting room floor and the juiciest parts never even got filmed i ve been approached before about making my books into adult films but i ve never felt right about it until now why now because it s in the hands of kay brandt who has won awards for directing adult films and adam and eve a long standing brand i know and trust like fans i have been rather protective of doc and carrie ronnie and gretchen these characters are part of my psyche and kind of part of my family granted a really naughty family that frolicks disease and chafe free in the fantasies that roll through my dirty mind d i didn t want to do a disservice to them or to the fans who loved them as much maybe more that i do so when kay pitched the idea of her vision for babysitting the baumgartners i have to admit i hesitated but the more she talked the more i realized she really understood the baumgartners she got the book a lot of people don t they think it s pure filth and hey everyone s got a right to their opinion eh this book is about sexual awakening it s a coming of age story about a vivacious but naive college girl and an adventurous caring couple who allow her to blossom under their tutelage that s not to say there s not a lot of damned hot sex in it d because trust me there is this book could never be made into a mainstream film like all good erotica if you take the sex out the whole story falls apart the sex in babysitting the baumgartners is integral in all its wet messy juicy yummy glory but that isn t all babysitting the baumgartners is about and that s the part that kay brandt understands which is why i was willing to trust her with this family and these characters that so many fans have fallen in love with since i first published it back in 2008 that s why i m so excited to make this announcement you guys i will be posting here often updating you on how things are going letting you know about filming schedules and release dates but the very first thing i m going to reveal aside from our very bright and awesome green light on this project is that the roles of doc carrie and gretchen have been cast and are listed below and i couldn t be more thrilled with them there will be a casting call for the all important role of ronnie and you guys will get to vote on which one you like best carrie baumgartner mrs b anikka albrite hello mrs b mrs b in a bikini of course oh my word steven doc baumgartner ryan driller hey what s up doc doc on the beach can t you see him playing doc gretchen a j applegate a j applegate the perfect gretchen pretty without makeup all made up dat lip bite tho fanning self whew is it hot in here shooting starts in march but i ll post lots of awesome stuff about the casting call for our girl ronnie before then this is going to be an amazing exciting and totally fun journey i can t wait to take all of you on it with me here s to the baumgartners our favorite family d xoxo posted by selena kitt at 7 58 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adam and eve adult movies babysitting the baumgartners baumgartners crossover erotic erotica making an adult film making of a movie making porn movie tie in porn selena kitt sex smut friday november 13 2015 erotica readers writers association changing of the guard the erotica readers and writers association has been around since 1996 it pre dates my foray into the erotica genre by ten years and is coming up on its twentieth anniversary adrienne benedicks has run it from the beginning and i remember finding my very first publisher stardust now defunct on their author resources page adrienne is now retiring and moving to greener pastures and a warmer climate she felt it was time to pass the baton and i was honored that she thought of me in recent years as amazon and other retailers have pushed back against erotica authors i have seriously considered giving up on the genre altogether but in the end i simply can t walk away from something i ve invested nearly ten years of my own time and energy into besides i love erotica as a genre and i love erotica authors i have never met a more fun loving open minded good hearted crowd of people erotica authors are the first line in the defenders of the freedom of expression they go places 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