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Originally Posted by kyrilson
Hmm. The scale that this would have to be done to actually be profitable for a self published author seems like it would be more work than the actual payoff. I know many people turn off the wifi to save battery life, so it would be a legitimate use if they downloaded the KU book, read it on their kindle and returned it again via wifi. That would then be flagged as fraud, even though it wasn't fraud. What then? Hmm?
Anyways, whatevs. Believe what you want.  |
From what I understand of the process is that if you read a KU book on a Kindle with WiFi disabled, the next time you turn WiFi on and the Kindle syncs, the information will include the number of pages read, time read, etc. It's not as if your Kindle connects to Amazon for every page flip.
There have been quite a few successful attempts to game the KU reading stats which one of the reasons that Amazon is doing their best to keep the details of their current algorithms for KU payments a burn before reading secret.
The linked page is a few years old and the practices mentioned are of limited usefulness today but still worth reading:
KU Scammers on Amazon – What’s Going On?.
Edit: Since this is horribly off topic for this thread, I'd suggest that we look at moving this discussion to the Amazon Kindle forum or the Lounge forum if it is to continue.