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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Actually, they (Amazon Kindle, at least) kind of have to, according to the idea behind KU. They pay authors once 10% has been read. (Before this news, I would've thought the same as you.) Although the unit definitely does log the data -- that is how the Time Left To Read is calculated.
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Knowing how far you are is not the same as knowing how long you view a page. Of course the unit itself knows what page you are on but not how long you have been there. I can't imagine what clandestine purpose knowing how long you were on a page could be used for anyway.
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Of course, even if an ebook is a purchase, it is still against the law to redistribute.  License vs. purchase doesn't magically make it more illegal than it already was to take something you bought and duplicate it to then redistribute someone else's copyrighted creative work.
Same goes for photocopying and redistributing a pbook. It may be more difficult, but then again, it is also against the law.
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There is no difference between "purchasing" an eBook and "licensing" an eBook. You always own the file itself but DRM might prevent you from using the file to read.
Dale