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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
They are loans. And from what I understand (limited understanding here as this is all new) an author doesn't get paid unless you actually read the books. So, for example, I sampled about 3 books yesterday, reading...up to 20 percent of the one, but not reading more than 10 percent of the other two. I didn't ultimately want to continue with any. It's my understanding from what we were told as authors that unless a book reached some magic percentage, we wouldn't be paid.
I'm not sure how it all works or how they determine any of it, but I'm throwing it out there in case anyone wants the limited info I have.
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That's very interesting. I was an used book dealer for several years (I've put the business on hiatus for reasons that I won't go into here) and it was amazing to me how many used books that I ran across in thrift stores, used book sales, etc. that had apparently not been read at all (it is easy to tell with paperbacks). Something seems a little unfair not to pay an author for ebooks that are not read. But, the advent of ebooks has changed so many things . . . .