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Originally Posted by Rizla
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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The previews are extremely limited. Table of contents, preface, acknowledgements and a handful of pages from chapter 1. There is no reader who would check out a book from the library based on that amount of perusal. They're useful for checking out the formatting, not so much for the content IMO.
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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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I disagree. Since there is a shared pot, it's about maximising payouts for deserving authors whose books are read through, by minimising payments to those whose books were not deemed good enough by the reader.
Competent authors should welcome such a system. Hit and run artists would not.