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Old 05-09-2019, 02:19 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Mistyfarm View Post
But lets just say that they pay authors per page view as has been suggested and that they really were actually dumb enough NOT to have algorized it to filter out spurious use; how would you calculate someone was just blitzing or scamming so Amazon could keep making the most money without losing it to real life fraudsters?
One way to calculate that is to see if a user is repeatedly blitzing through numerous books, which looks like what you got caught in.

It's not that you went through 300 books. it's that you went through 300 books in an hour and then did it again and did it again. Scammers do this as Kindle Unlimited pays out per page read. You can Google "Kindle Unlimited Click Farm" and find many articles about it.

It's just your bad luck that your legitimate behavior matches a well known scheme that Amazon is protecting against. So Darryl was right. It is a good and necessary anti-fraud measure.
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