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Originally Posted by murraypaul
To be fair, this is basically true of all eBook sales.
If Amazon/Kobo/B&N/... decided to keep all the revenue from a random 5% of eBook sales and not report them to the author, would anyone know?
But neither way of cheating is in Amazon's interests, its business is build on reputation.
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Not really. What you are talking about is actual fraud and would land someone in jail. Publishers are paid $X per book sold. The author gets Y% of that. Sutherland describes a system where each author is paid some amount per page read, with the amount varying each month accord to some proprietary algorithm that Amazon won't tell. The same thing to what you say would be if Amazon misreported the number of pages read.