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Originally Posted by jhowell
Basing the reading statistics for KU on information they already had (highest page read) makes logical sense. To implement a better tracking system would have required them to update the firmware for all models of Kindle and also all of the reading apps for all platforms. They also would have had to block older Kindle models and older apps from using KU. That would have been a problem for customers.
In any case, it is the authors who are cheated. Amazon makes money either way.
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What you say is true, but a remedy need not include updating anything.
Amazon could simply limit the number "lent" per month or week. Amazon would then decide what to do in the future after accessing their more voracious readers' habits and proclivities.
There might not really be a problem, just a few show-offs.