In the 6 months or so that I've been selling my blog subscriptions for the Amazon kindle, blog subscrition - of those blogs of mine that were popular - had continued to go up. The daily report said so - even during those times when you'd have to wait 6 days or more before the "daily" report was updated, and this would be reflected in the monthly report that would tell me how much money I was going to earn.
This month, it was different.
This month, the numbers didn't match. According to the daily report, I should have had well over 400 subscriptions for my Rush Limbaugh blog... on the monthly report, I only had 200. ALl my other blogs had been cut in half as well.
So while I was confidently expecting that next month I'd top the 1000 subscription mark, total, and start getting $300 a month from Amazon, with things only getting better...my income has been cut in half again. (The first time of course when they arbitrarily changed all my blog fees from $1.99 to .99 without even telling me they were going to do it.)
I simply don't trust Amazon's numbers any more. It used to be, up until this month, that if someone purchased a subscription to your blog, it would show up in about an hour - on the Amazon subscription page. But I've got at least 2 new blogs that have, supposedly, a couple of subscribers, and they still don;t show any numbers.
Long story short, I'm heart broken and fed up.
Working as hard as I do for $300 a month was just barely worth it. Working as hard as I do for $100 a month...or however much Amazon will arbitrarily decide to give me in future...just isn't worth it.
So I'm going back to concentrating on books for the Kindle instead. To date, those at least record purchases the day they happen, and you can tell if the ungrateful creeps have returned the book the same day too. (Something I dont think should be allowed, by the way.)
But there you have it.
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