Even after the fact, once a book is generating profits in the Kindle store, one can think of many automated controls:
1. It shouldn't matter that the old Kindles can't tell the pages you've read (just the max page you reached), if the new ones can, because then, based on the data from the newer Kindles, one can detect books where people only read the first and last page (and then maybe investigate those books manually)
2. Even if no Kindle device was able to tell the pages you've read, if it's possible to measure the speed at which a reader reached the last page (date book first opened - date last page read), then by comparing to similar books of similar size it should not be difficult to identify outliers
3. Etc.
My point is, for some reason Amazon doesn't want to police itself, neither in the Kindle store nor in the general store (third-party sellers), which is bad for its brand.
This is puzzling because it's irrational, and one would think Jeff Bezos is more of the hyper-rational type...
So a piece of the puzzle is missing, but I can't see it.
Until this style of scam steals a big perportion of revenue, enough that real authors stop uploading new books, Amazon has no incentive to do anything about it.
or someone could just read them.
However I’m guessing having a big inventory is more valuable than quality. That could be amazon’s cultural motivation to dismiss quality by default
But maybe you're right, the size of the inventory is what matters to Amazon who may be stuck in a "growth at all costs" mentality. That would explain it in part.
In other words, scammers like this are taking money directly from authors producing legitimate work.
> No real content??? As if. I LOVE Chance’s books, they’re amazing!!! LOL to theFivierrr idea, his books are proper legit. You write slander or libel or whatever it’s called. You should be ashamed of your bad journalism, ever fact checked anything?!
Seems an obvious thing that would have been taken advantage of. Is there a rational behind why they didn't want to track something like time per page or time spent within one book? People don't like tracking I guess but statistics like those can be interesting to readers as well.
The page-tracking feature that's used by KDP was originally only designed to allow users to sync their reading progress across devices. It was never intended for this application.
I got the "we care about your prinvacy" note, in spanish.
What do I have to do to convince the internet that I don't speak fucking spanish? Yes my ip is in spain because I live here.
Is it really so hard for developers in 2018 to realize that IP does not mean language preference?
<edit> And also, stop spoiling spaniards with providing everything translated, this country needs to learn some english
I like to read things in Spanish.
pd: give you a break, go to a walk, talk to nice people.
Cool but kind of irrelevant here. The point is that the website is ignoring the preferred locale requested by the browser and relying on IP geolocation for language. It can be infuriating for persons who do not understand the particular language, and cannot read the content even when they have specified their preference clearly.
I browse the site and it defaults to English, and my browser is set to en_US as locale.
This is an american company, so default language is in english. Which I went to the trouble of learning in order to "join the rest of the world", out of my tiny homecountry.
They have their content available in spanish as well, which is great, but I don't speak it (I do actually but I am so sick of it being forced on me)
All I want is the courtesy of letting me choose the language that I want them to talk to me with.
Imagine if someone irl would only speak to you in spanish cause you're latino-looking