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Originally Posted by Hitch
Amazon's position--and trust me, I've had scads of emails with Seattle's KDP department about this--is that the SRL *will be set* to the first page of relatively full text, after the TOC. Period. However, if the author-pub emails them, post upload, once the book is on sale, the every-day KDP will adjust the SRL, generally speaking, to where the author-pub wants it to be. That's been our experience.
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Hm. You'd think that there could be a way to set this so you don't have to call Amazon every time. Like, they could just dictate some additional piece of metadata, "reallyActuallySRL" that can be set by people who know what they're doing, and the KDP machinery will obey it?
(Unless...they do that because of this whole KU thing?)
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Originally Posted by Hitch
My ponderment is, how does that possibly work? Obviously, the tricked reader will return the book to Amazon, and tell them why. Payment isn't made instantaneously to the scammer, so...I can only assume that the entire thing is contingent upon the scammees (the readers) NOT reporting the scamming book to Amazon, AND, having received it via KU, so that the scammer gets the payment from KU on pages read.
So--the simple way to kill off scammers is for the reader/purchaser/downloader to report the book to Amazon. Amazon would "return" the book, and deduct any payment.
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I haven't actually done KU, but my understanding is that you can just download and read whatever you want. Is the concept of "returning" relevant here? The user expects to be able to just read whatever they want because of their periodic payment, so a junk book would probably be "huh, that's stupid, let me find another book" as opposed to "I want my money back!"