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Comment by grawprog

Wait so...

>Readers don't get a "refund" for dropping a KU book 5% of the way through,

But...

Authors get paid by the page?

So Amazon basically gets to stiff authors on the refund that customers aren't getting but Amazon is applying internally to products customers use through their services by way of just not paying authors for content? Seems pretty fucked up to me and the only one that benefits is Amazon. Customers are left with something they don't want and authors aren't paid for their work while Amazon keeps the change...

parent grawprog 6 years ago

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