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Originally Posted by DNSB
Perhaps Quoth can think of a way to have the number of pages read in a borrowed book tracked without having some form of tracking in place. I accept that Kindle Unlimited or KoboPlus are going to require tracking of pages read in a book so calling it invasive is a bit of a stretch.
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How about some payment method that does not require them to know how many pages have been read? Base payment on something else, the obvious thing being that the book was borrowed or bought in the first place. Kind of like everything
else in this world.
Amazon came up with a scheme to withhold money from authors by saying a deal is not a deal until the customer actually reads the book. Note that Amazon gets the KU subscription payment up front, without the book having to be read - they just withhold it from the authors. Pretty sneaky. And in some bizarre twist of logic, authors bought into that and (apparently) signed contracts based on it. What a stupid thing to do, but who am I to say? But the agreement between Amazon and authors in no way forces a burden on me to leave my WiFi on so they can track this data. Bad idea, bad implementation, bad results. But that's between Amazon and the authors.