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Originally Posted by stumped
PS, what annoys me about that disclosure is that about a year ago we had lost a Kindle, so I called Amazon to ask can you tell me where and when it was last used( hoping that would help track it down). Amazon said "sorry we don't keep any data on your Kindle usage". Which, if the above article is true, was a complete lie.
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It is a lie. Otherwise "Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) Read from KU and KOLL"
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Royalties in Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners' Lending Library
You're eligible for royalty payment from Kindle Unlimited (KU, or Abonnement Kindle in France) and the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL) for pages an individual customer reads in your book for the first time.
A customer can read your book as many times as they like, but we will only pay you for the number of pages read the first time the customer reads them. It may take months for customers to read pages in your book, but no matter how long it takes, we'll still pay you once it happens. This is true even if your KDP Select enrollment period has expired, and you choose not to re-enroll.
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I regard DRM and reading monitoring as evils. It's not at all the same as paying a store or online via a credit card for a known item. And in the EU there are rules about that.
The USA before the Internet even brought in laws to forbid Banks making use of any info on a Check (Cheque) other than to clear it (pay it).
Online services, sales and such should be subject to the same laws as historic trading. It's just electronic mail order or advertising, not something different that magically doesn't need any law. Uber, Netflix, Facebook, Google, Amazon, AirBnB.