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A couple of reasons come to mind. Amazon is a publisher and a retailer—any libraries that are either of those come to mind? That KU authors are paid on a pages read basis so the books have to stay within the Amazon ecosystem to allow tracking that number? That KU has no time limit on a loan? ...
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So that is how it is, I'm not sure why it is impossible to change any of those things?
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That the vast majority of KU books are exclusive to Amazon? ...
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Why wouldn't that fit in a model where Amazon purchases a license?
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That Amazon expects to make a profit which is not an expectation for a public library?
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Which is fine, but there are 2 other considerations: authors and consumers?
I won't even get into the sad history of the number of ways that people tried to game KU to increase their payments which has resulted in the current pages read algorithm with it's conditions which are not public knowledge?
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I haven't heard much complaining about the gaming of the library system?