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Originally Posted by hardcastle
How do they use these metrics to decide if a reader "read" a book to a degree worthy of payment? We have no possible way of knowing how sophisticated their models are. There's a lot of unknowns about Kindle Unlimited still - which is likely why the service was rolled out without a massive library. It's even possible that Amazon themselves considers the service in-progress.
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There probably is a flag that gets triggered once a normal page-by-page progression exceeds 10%. Kindle software obviously tracks time between page "turns" and knows to deprecate unusually long ones, unusually short ones, and leaps forward and back. Otherwise the reading speed estimates wouldn't be too useful.
And yes, KU is probably in gamma testing.
There have been reports that the original plan was for a fall launch but they moved it up once KU was outed.