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Self-publishing authors whose work is available from Kindle's library and membership platforms will only receive royalties for the pages of their books that are actually read, Amazon has announced.

鈥淚t鈥檇 change both the way we read and the way we write,鈥� said Samantha Shannon, author of The Bone Season, which was one of Amazon鈥檚 books of the year in 2013.

She said having more data available could help authors write in a certain way, but added: 鈥淭he problem with literature is that it鈥檚 so subjective 鈥� it鈥檚 impossible to quantify quality.鈥�

But Kerry Wilkinson, self-published author of the Jessica Daniel crime series, said: 鈥淚f you choose to abandon a book because it鈥檚 not for you then I don鈥檛 see a problem with that.鈥�