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Old 01-03-2015, 12:31 PM   #144
Rizla
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Originally Posted by howyoudoin View Post
So what you're suggesting is that publishers and authors need to be enabled to behave as hit and run artists? Nothing else matters because the poor sucker's exhausted his quota for the month and the publisher/author got paid anyway?

Would you walk into a library and check out an unknown book without perusing it first? Do we start locking up the bookshelves and put up "No touching" signs to accompany the "Keep Silence" ones?

Does the reader even matter in this world view of what reading is about, or is it all about maximising revenue for the publishers and authors?
I am not saying much of what you seem to be attributing to me. Re: perusing a la bibliotheque, Amazon already offers a preview facility for books which is quite adequate and equivalent to perusing a book.

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Does the reader even matter in this world view of what reading is about, or is it all about maximising revenue for the publishers and authors?
The 10% rule has little to do with readers. It is about Amazon maximizing revenue from KU. It enables Amazon to pay less to authors from the pot, at least as far as I understand it.
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