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Originally Posted by Quoth
That's a consequence of the payment system also being broken. Amazon should pay in advance (per number simultaneously lent, so nothing if no-one borrows), (a library has to buy the paper or ebooks) and then pay a small royalty per loan, even if it's not read (Like UK and Irish Libraries do).
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The critical difference between Amazon Unlimited and the old style subscription libraries is that Amazon is not choosing the books that go into the library. Before you can set up a payment system such as in UK and Irish libraries, you need to figure how to prevent scammers from getting a upfront payment for garbage in a system which can get submissions from anyone with access to the internet. Ideally without needing a multitude of slush readers who'd then need to be paid.
Honestly I'm glad Amazon is not calling it a subscription library as I don't think that an uncurated, poorly organized collection of books deserves to be called a library.