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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
When every page has been viewed. The only fiction books I would see that being a problem with would be short story anthologies. Some people would flip through the boring ones, but others would go to the contents and navigate to the next one from there. The flippers would be seen to have read it, the navigators wouldn't.
That would be solved by just giving anthologies away for free since they are basically just advertising for other things the contributors have written.
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You could just read it through once, then skip one page during successive readings. I think there's usually one page somewhere that the reader could live without, which would be especially true if the book had pages that only read "Part 2" or whatever. Plus since pages in ebooks (on some devices) are not numbered, but variable based on font size etc, they would need to figure out a way to determine a "page," and exclude the copyright page, or the acknowledgements page (or glossary, afterword, "about the author" page etc etc), from the count. Otherwise you could just skip those and sidestep the limit. Once again, it would be a huge hassle to make working DRM in this regard, imo.
It would make much more sense for them to apply time limits, like one year or whatever. Also doubtful, but certainly easier than trying to measure complete readings.
Edit: top that off with the likelihood that most consumers only read a book once, with a sharply declining percentage representing those who read it twice, three times etc. I don't see a real cost vs. benefit advantage in applying limitations to what would be a minority of buyers, especially since that re-reading minority would often forgo buying the limited books to begin with.