[myliverhatesme]

I think the per page strategy is way too arbitrary. What is a page exactly? A unit of measurement of text? How big is a page? What font must you use. What about technical books and books with pictures and diagrams? If we invented modern electronics before books we wouldn't care about pages. Measuring time spent would be a lot more useful and harder to game. What if the book is dense with so much good information that I feel the need to read slower or reread a paragraph?

[jon-wood]

Technically this is probably based on Kindle's location measurement, rather than physical pages. Locations allow them to sync where you are across vastly different devices without worrying about the fact that one may be a mobile with a huge font size showing three words a page, and the other might be a desktop reader with a tiny font.

[rajadigopula]

"Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC)" @ https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A156OS90J7RDN

[Cass]

The pages will almost certainly be based on word count. I believe the standard is 150 words/page.

Word count is probably the best measure to base this on, because time spent reading is totally arbitrary and depends on external variables, like how fast a reader the buyer is, how distracted they are while reading, and how difficult the text is. Personally, I'd think it makes more sense to pay us per 1000 words of text read, but if they want to call 250 words of text a page, that essentially accomplishes the same thing.

[siddg]

Did you not read the article? It says there is a standard font size etc, etc