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Originally Posted by booklover6
They can't. They have millions of subscribers. And many who have already paid months in advance. There would be a big problem if it got cancelled.
What I don't understand is how the system could provide payments of say $14 for a book, which may retail at 3.99. KU should not ever pay more than the "list retail price" of the book. But, as I understand it, from reading a lot of forums, when it's pay per page read, that's what they get for a 3,000 page document. I'm sure calculating the pages is more complicated than that. But, Amazon has set a 3,000 page limit, so they could also set a maximum retail price, and/or a maximum payout per book read. That would stop some of the scamming.
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I was being facetious on the cancelling KU.
Now what is the difference between paying ten 99 cent authors $1.34 per borrow under the old system or paying one 3000 page author $13.50?
Or 10 300 page authors 13.50? Or one author with ten 300 page books?
The money works out the same just distributed differently.
Under this new system, longer works are worth more than shorts. Which for the subscribers KU desperately needed.