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It was full of trash back when it was paid per "borrow" too. People would crank out dozens of 30-page erotica shorts per month, and each time one of those was read they got paid as much as the author of a 300-page novel. More, in fact, because IIRC the criteria for "user has read enough of the story, time to pay the author" was set as a percentage of the length... so the guy spamming shorts got paid after a page or two, but the novelist didn't get paid until the reader stuck it out through a couple chapters.