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Kindle Unlimited Book Stuffing Scam Earns Millions and Amazon Isn't Stopping It (inc.com)
37 points by ilamont on June 14, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



It boggles my mind how Amazon is unable to deal with the book stuffers yet claims they are taking action.

Just throwing an intern at the problem for a few days would net you a hefty list of the top abusers and a list of violations justifying booting them.

My guess would be the program managers turn a blind eye to it to boost their revenue / book metrics, and upper management is all too happy to play along.


Comments from a few days ago on a related but inferior article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283330


If they have to promise a prize or gift for turning to the last page, isn't this something that Bayesian filtering could solve fairly quickly.


This is not a new thing. Charles Dickens and Alexander Dumas where paid based on the length of their work and it shows.




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