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Old 06-24-2018, 02:34 AM   #29
Amazondoc
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Originally Posted by darryl View Post
If they can in fact track actual page reads it is not too far a stretch to imagine that they can detect when pages are clicked through.
Unless Amazon hijacks my laptop's camera to track my eye movements, or uses the timer I hypothesized above, I don't see how they can tell the difference between a page that I click through without reading vs. one that I click through after reading.

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I doubt Amazon will be enlightening us on the issue any time soon or in fact at all.
Ain't that the truth!

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Though I suspect most of us agree that authors at least should receive some reward for their work.
This is the big point for me. I pay Amazon for access to those books, through my Prime and KU memberships. As long as the author gets their cut, and as long as I don't go sharing that file throughout the netiverse, I feel very little guilt about whatever else I might do with the file before or after reading it.
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