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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There is a benefit to the publishers knowing what I read. The benefit is that they know what sells. So they know the types of books to publish. If everyone kept 100% private in what they read, then that sort of thing would not happen and what gets published would not be based on what the readers want or it would be a subset of readers getting what they want.
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Even if all sales are anonymous, the publisher will still know which books were sold and how many. They just won't know the names of the buyers.