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Old 12-19-2023, 07:29 AM   #59
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by haertig View Post
"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.
I think this data is being sent to they know what it is you are reading regardless of what eBooks you've bought. Lots of eBooks are bought. But I think they want to know which ones you actually read.

For KU. the time reading is important. It helps Amazon make sure you are not just flipping pages to help get the author money.
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