[bduerst]

You would still need to force the users through each page.

Fast-reading bad actor accounts can be flagged as abusers through pattern recognition. Since a subscription is necessary, creating numerous accounts to game the system becomes expensive fast.

[VLM]

This is kind of rough for technical or reference-ish books. Perfectly OK for fiction... well, except for anthologies and collections (HAL 9000 says I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you skip past the other Arthur C Clarke stories in this anthology, you'll have to read all the stories in order, at an acceptably slow speed)

I subscribe to F+SF and it would annoy me if I were technically prevented from skipping the end of stories that don't resonate with me.

[bduerst]

Sorry, I meant the abusers would need to force their fraudulent user accounts through each page.

Normal people who don't find a book engaging can still skip the end, just that they'll (justifiably) be worth less to the author.

[imaginenore]

They don't have to be fast-reading. They can just create a fake log, and send it to the mothership after an appropriate period of time.

Still, I will agree that that will make scammers' lives harder.

[bduerst]

Since only paid accounts are used in revenue attribution, faking logs for your own accounts would never work.