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Originally Posted by library addict
Also if the book is in KU (exclusive), people who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited can borrow the book for "free" and every borrow counts as a sale when it comes to rankings (which helps with visibility, the higher a book is ranked the more Amazon's algorithm will suggest it) .
And when the customer reads the book, the author is given money per page read. (They have to read past 10% or something like that).
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The KU cheats Authors compared to sales.
An Amazon subscription Library to cheat authors, lock in readers and build a monopoly.
Cheats readers of privacy too.
The rankings thing shows how Amazon games the system to build its monopoly.