Observer Business and Tech offers an update on the scammers scamming Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. It turns out that Amazon was lying and scamming its legitimate authors and readers all along with false claims of actually knowing the number of pages read (and paying authors for those).
It turns out that all Amazon actually knows is the last page you read. The scamming fake authors gamed the system by putting links to the last page in their eBooks so when the reader clicked the link, the scammer would collect a full payout for a phony eBook that no one ever actually read.
So, if Amazon can’t be trusted to respect authors and readers enough to tell them the truth, and the scammers are stealing income away from those legitimate authors, can we just dump Kindle Unlimited altogether and start buying and selling affordable eBooks in an open market exchange?
