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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. |
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12-16-2023, 04:58 PM | #34 |
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12-16-2023, 06:19 PM | #35 |
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In the case of Kobo Plus and Kindle Unlimited, you are trading sending them more information for lower costs on feeding our addiction for the printed word.
We each get to make our own decisions as to how paranoid we are feeling. |
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One story from years back mentioned one author who published short stories that were utter garbage and managed to make a good living from KU for months before the algorithms caught up with his network of cybernetic buddies. So we get the present system where Amazon records and analyzes page turns just in case a "reader" is flipping 300 pages per minute, or spending the same time on every page in the book. Going by several reports, even that is not sufficient since the bot programmers are getting better and Amazon is pretty much limited to being reactive. Last edited by DNSB; 12-16-2023 at 08:46 PM. |
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There was also, uh, Cockygate.
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In fact, I'd like to see someone stealing my identity, just from curiosity. A fat lot of good it would do them. |
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12-17-2023, 04:12 AM | #42 |
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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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12-17-2023, 07:44 AM | #43 |
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The article was advocacy. Long on innuendo and short on facts. X exits there for Y could happen. OMG Y is happening, we must stop Y.
They provided no evidence that Amazon is selling it's data to anyone else. They provided no evidence that libraries aren't selling data on the books and ebooks of their patrons. Unless you are buying used books for cash at your local flee market, somebody knows what you bought. |
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I'd actually suspect, like Apple, Amazon wants to keep all their gathered data to themselves. They also seem inept at using it.
Meta-Facebook, Alphabet-Google, X-Twitter and similar are not the same at all. |
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