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What part of the text are you referring to exactly? There was a sentence that Amazon's metric isn't influenced by big fonts or other formatting choices (they p
by Sujan 8y ago
What part of the text are you referring to exactly?
There was a sentence that Amazon's metric isn't influenced by big fonts or other formatting choices (they probably just use a plain text version of the text to define what a "page" is) and 'that the KENPC system (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) recorded pages read with “high precision”' - which doesn't actually mean that much.
Did I miss the interesting part?
My point was mostly based that I know it was that way for a long time, and that things like stuffing or those newsletter signups or competition in the back of the book wouldn't have any influence if it still wouldn't be this way.
- asmosoinio 8y agoThis sentence, mentioning "pages read": A June blog post by the Kindle Direct Publishing Team assured authors that the KENPC system (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) recorded pages read with “high precision” and that the company was constantly working to improve its “fidelity.”
- Sujan 8y agoYeah, as far as I know this has always been the official wording. What makes me skeptical here is the use of "high precision" and what there could be to improve... a page was either viewed for the time necessary to read it or not. Over all readers of a book, it should not be too hard to find out the distribution of valid read times of a page. Unless, of course, you don't have that data, but only some snapshots of which page is opened (e.g. when a sync to the cloud servers happens). Shame the Kindle APIs are undocumented :/