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Originally Posted by rkomar
The KU system is designed to reward authors who have their works read by subscribers, and they need people to read "normally" to get the balance right. The way you used it was "unfair" within their system.
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That's silly. So what is it here, Amazon expects consumers to pay to subscribe to KU with a consumer goal of "rewarding authors"? Thus Amazon mandates how you are allowed read books (in the "normal" way) so as to maximize author payments?
(1) The consumer goal is "reading books"
(2) The Amazon goal is "creating corporate profit" (this goal may be enhanced by screwing consumers, or screwing authors, or both - chances are quite high that Amazon wants to minimize payments to authors, not maximize them - Amazon is probably tickled pink by consumers who download books and only skim or never read them ... they don't have to pay the authors so much then!)
(3) The author goal may be "rewarding authors" however
I expect the typical consumer cares about their goal, but couldn't care less about Amazon's goals or the author's goals, except for how those other goals negatively impact the consumer.