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Originally Posted by Abrasrose
They do get paid. I purchase the book and then strip the DRM. I don't lend the books, I just add a rating to remind me if I liked the book. Since I've already bought it, they've been paid. Also, books have been lent out to friends for hundreds of years. No one worried about that then.
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With physical books, when you lent your copy of the book to a friend, you could no longer read it until the friend returned the book to you. Now I can lend an ebook to 500 of my closest "friends" and keep a copy for myself. Of course, nothing is stopping those friends from gifting copies to their friends.
And please note that for Kindle Unlimited, the amount paid to the author by Amazon depends
solely on the number of page reads reported to Amazon by Amazon's devices and apps. The author gets nothing if page reads are not reported.