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Originally Posted by slm
We may be losing sight of the forest for the trees. We are a few trees, some of whom may be bypassing the reporting system by which KU authors get paid. Overall, however, this is a tiny percentage of the KU audience. So the system "works"--authors mostly get credited with most of the real pages read in their books.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
It was implemented because people stuffed KU with all kinds of garbage otherwise. It's not a traditional library where books are bought in and carefully selected; it's mostly self-published stuff. How do you avoid fake books when authors are paid on per-book basis? Crooks stuffed KU with books filled with meaningless garbage after the first few pages and got their money. I still remember stumbling on a few of such fake books when browsing Amazon. They disappeared after the per-page system was introduced.
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I was pertaining to the system where you can download KU books directly from Amazon's site. That's the system I was referring to as flawed. It shouldn't have been there in the first place.
I'm aware of the book scams people were implementing. Funnily enough, these past few weeks, I keep seeing instruction videos on youtube recs on how to "earn money" from KDP and KU. Most of them just scammy ideas like using AI to write you a novel.