In several groups this week, a lot of my author friends started reporting worst-ever months and a drastic drop in income due to a sudden drop in page reads. For authors in Kindle Unlimited, page reads could often be as much as half the income generated from Amazon Kindle.

Today, I saw a *hypothetical* explanation that seems on-point.

Amy Hopkins posted in the Nanowrimo Facebook group:

PSA: the new page flip function on kindle allows you to read a full book in that mode. If the book was borrowed through ku and you read the book without zooming in periodically, the author WILL NOT BE PAID for that book. *does not apply to purchased books

**zooming in only on the final page doesn’t seem to have been tested

Then I saw the article confirming this idea on The Passive Voice:

Page-flip messing up KU page reporting? Author Randall Woods comments,