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Originally Posted by murraypaul
That is your opinion, not fact.
As does the equivalent program from Kobo.
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Online eRetail making their own rules and cheating content providers compared to traditional sales and royalties (shops and libraries) is an absolute fact.
Content providers should get paid whatever price they want per copy, and then retail sell at any price.
Libraries (even online etext) should pay full price or content providers library price (see Smashwords) for how many copies they lend at once and per borrrow royalty. NOT based on pages, as that is abusive tracking of users and not how it should work.
Amazon is making up their own rules to suit themselves, which abuse the privacy of readers and are contrary to what content providers want and contrary to law in many countries.
Content providers should not be forced to set a retail price. Amazon should pay a content providers price and for loans in UK or Ireland have the SAME rules as real libraries, ie pay for simultaneous copies at content provider's library rate AND pay the national agreed per borrow royalty.
It's time big Corporations using the Internet to Market and Sell have the same rules applied as everyone else and respect privacy and local laws.