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Originally Posted by haertig
"But we have to snoop on you so we can pay our authors!" is not a compelling reason for me to open myself up to their monitoring and analyzing of what I read and how I read it. Because I have a feeling they are not doing this just for the altruistic purposes of paying authors. They are doing it to increase their profits with enhanced advertising and targeted marketing based on data they glean from me. I choose not to supply them with that data.
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I agree.
Also Amazon decides the pot and decided the system, not authors or publishers. They could do a different system which would not snoop on readers, but they'd have to pay more. They should have to pay for rights per simultaneous loan and a small royalty per borrow, whether read or not.
The present system benefits the retailer and invades privacy and penalises authors compared to UK & Ireland libraries.
It's abuse of their monopoly position.
So I will buy ebooks from Kobo and Amazon, but only borrow (if at all) from the real Irish library system.