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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
As was said below your post, Amazon stores data. For example, if you highlight phrases and such, that gets stored as well.
Just FYI -- SCRIBD uses a similar payment system for authors. Their "payment" requires that 20 percent of the book be read. SCRIBD so far also provides SOME data back to the author. We can see that 20 percent was read in one day (or whatever time frame). But we only get one metric. So if the person finishes the book, we can't tell. If the person nearly finishes in a day, we see 80 percent. In other words, it appears that Scribd takes one metric right after the author has reached "you qualify for payment" and let's the author know how far the reader has read at that qualifying point. So if the person reads quickly or in one sitting, we see 40 percent or 80 percent or whathaveyou. As far as I can tell, even if the person goes back and finishes the book, we don't then get any metrics updated.
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I recently downloaded a bunch of Scribd book and read them offline while on a road trip (10 hours in car = 3 YA books finished in one day). Does that mean the author gets no metrics on them at all? Presumably Scribd can still tell when I finally connect to wifi that I've read them at some point during the week?