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Originally Posted by Quoth
This system abuses content providers and privacy of consumers. What they should do is run a system like real libraries and Scribd do.
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Amazon tried that and it didn’t work. When authors were paid by the borrow the system was flooded with one page books. Being paid by the size of the borrowed book results in 10,000 page books full of nonsense.
The reason that paying by borrow works for libraries is they have a curated collection. If books on KU had to go through a review and acceptance process then the overall quality of the collection would greatly increase and pay by borrow would become practical.
Of course authors would be upset when their books were rejected and consumers would by unhappy with the higher fee that Amazon would need to charge.