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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The solution could be simpler than it appears. To effectively shut down click farms might only require a delay of payment on ALL KU borrows during the first free month. Make the delay so long that the author doesn't get paid until the KU account at least paid for a month. Should be fairly easy to split up the pages read into 2 columns - those for paying subscribers read pages and trial subscribers read pages pending payment.
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People have been gaming Amazon for years and still are. It's a natural outgrowth of how Amazon's business model (i.e. pushing as much work on to someone else as possible) works. For that matter, many indie authors game the system by breaking their books up into chapter books, thus charging a lot more and are much praised here for it. There will always be someone willing to grab a buck if it's out there. The only real difference this time is that Amazon decided that it was their ox that was getting gored.