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I think the per page strategy is way too arbitrary. What is a page exactly? A unit of measurement of text? How big is a page? What font must you use. What about technical books and books with pictures and diagrams? If we invented modern electronics before books we wouldn't care about pages. Measuring time spent would be a lot more useful and harder to game. What if the book is dense with so much good information that…
I think the per page strategy is way too arbitrary. What is a page exactly? A unit of measurement of text? How big is a page? What font must you use. What about technical books and books with pictures and diagrams? If we invented modern electronics before books we wouldn't care about pages. Measuring time spent would be a lot more useful and harder to game. What if the book is dense with so much good information that…
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
Because it's the device they're offering, the version of the content they're offering, and the service they're offering. If you disagree with this practice, you're free to not accept the offer. It's as simple as that.
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
Because it's the device they're offering, the version of the content they're offering, and the service they're offering. If you disagree with this practice, you're free to not accept the offer. It's as simple as that.
This really buries the lede! Only two mentions that this only applies to Kindle Unlimited, and not until the seventh paragraph.
This could offer the final blow to the paper book market: Since they way to monetize ebooks will be totally different than paper books, this means they'll need to be written in a totally different way. So this means most authors will choose one or the other, and most likely they'll choose to write only ebooks, because there's more money there.
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What about something like "Capital in the 21st Century"?
Despite the unfortunate name, that book presents some interesting empirical work. The theoretical side less so. The original "Capital" is nonsense. It's very interesting to me that presenting an incoherent argument, and insisting that anyone who doesn't understand it is ignorant, is a highly successful debating tactic.
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When you read part of an ebook, set it aside, and come back, you want it to remember what page you were on. You also want this to work if you switch between devices. It is technically difficult to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on.
It is technically dift to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on. Not since encryption has been invented. Firefox syncs currently open tabs and other stuff without letting Mozilla know about them.
Firefox encrypts your history and open tabs because those are sensitive.
A page number in a book is not.
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When you read part of an ebook, set it aside, and come back, you want it to remember what page you were on. You also want this to work if you switch between devices. It is technically difficult to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on.
It is technically dift to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on. Not since encryption has been invented. Firefox syncs currently open tabs and other stuff without letting Mozilla know about them.
Firefox encrypts your history and open tabs because those are sensitive.
A page number in a book is not.
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I think they will go for something like ( price_of_the_book)/(no_of_pages) for a single page. So it should not be a problem though. Historically I think, may be, some of the 19 century books like Charles Dickens The Great Expectation may suffer from the problem you mention. These books used to be published like periodicals like a single chapter would be released each week(like soap). It made sense to lengthen them fo…
How about paying by the percentage of what the customer read?