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Originally Posted by Manabi
Correct, they'll see that you opened it, jumped to the last page and didn't spend enough time with it open to actually read it, so the author won't get any credit. Leaving the book open for a long time also won't work, because they still see the jump. To them it looks like you at best read the first and last page and nothing in-between. They're not going to pay the artist for that.
If they did, the program would be ripe for abuse, and absolutely would be abused.
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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.  |
This has already been done, Amazon blacklisted several authors for doing this.
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon...ishing-system/
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