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Old 12-16-2011, 02:00 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
Is it practical for one author to audit the program? Depends on how much is at stake. Even if impractical, if the authors have the right, they could band together. More importantly, contractually having the right to audit gives some credence to the idea that Amazon isn't cheating.

I don't know how it is done for sales. I'm not an author. But if there were no mechanism by which I could verify numbers, I would be mighty worried abour being ripped off.
We'll not I'm really curious. What is the industry standard for ensuring that everything is on the up and up.

With paper books, I can picture a "paper" trail; You could probably do a lot of cross referencing with shipments, payments, returns, ... But with ebooks, (especially with Amazon which does it's own DRM activations), It looks pretty hard to verify anything?
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