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Originally Posted by nana77
I don't recall well but can it be that authors - on some specific sales - would have being paid only when, or if, the books have been read? I.e. several of those bundles that sells the novels for cheap might be monies that doesn't goes to the authors if the book remain on a TBR pile?
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No, I think that's not the case because it's a sale. I met an author at a living history festival some years ago who'd recently had her ouvre in a Kindle Big Deal, and she said her sales had been bumped by that. It's the subscription programs like Kindle Unlimited that don't pay unless the book is read.
I think it's this that's driving the recent changes - if you borrow via KU or similar, download, strip DRM and transfer to a non-Kindle device, the store can't track your reading in order to pay authors. I said last year when downloads were removed that it should only ever have applied to borrows, not sales.