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Originally Posted by jhowell
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.
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Yes, I'm aware Amazon did it wrong. The problem is wanting to automate everything and not have human curation. Greed, and it's why Social Media sites are cess-pits.
There are better ways, but the current system works well for Amazon.