Joseph asked John Van Stry:

John, Having read your post on the impact of people pirating your work, I was wondering how kindle unlimited impacts authors? Do they get the same amount if I read the entire book on kindle unlimited as you would if I were to buy it? Try to decide the best course of action to support my habit as well as the authors who enable it.

John Van Stry You normally get less of a royalty from Kindle Unlimited than you do if someone buys the book. It's anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of the normal royalty, it depends on the size of the book and what the price is. On my longer novels it's pretty close.
Also, it depends on what Amazon is doing. They've slowly been reducing the amount of the KU payout, though I suspect a good reason for that happening is because of all the scammers in the pool who are diluting it, and Amazon being slow to deal with them.
I don't really mind KU sales, if I thought I wasn't doing okay with them, I'd pull out of KU after all. And I'd rather have a KU royalty, than no royalty at all.
Thanks!

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