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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. But if I did, would an author get paid if I downloaded the KF8 version, sided loaded it, read and someday did turn on WiFi?
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Can you even do that? I thought download only applied to PC app, not sideload for KU? Also it's per page. Amazon is "loaning" a book they didn't pay for and using a dodgy method to track consumption and the publisher/author won't know in advance what a page is worth. Also there can be as much work writing 40,000 words as 120,000 words. Books shouldn't be "rented out" per-page read. I suspect plenty of people don't realise that the advantages fo KDP Select are more for Amazon than them. They are giving up ALL sales elsewhere for nebulous extra promotion of actual sales and unknowable income in advance for books "borrowed" (they are not purchased by user or Amazon) via Kindle Unlimited. There is another "lending" system even if not in KDP Select that you can only opt out of by taking less than 1/2 the revenue, yet it earns nothing per loan.