[seanwilson]

> Thanks to a flaw in the Kindle platform, namely that the platform knows your location in a book but not how many pages you have actually read, the scammers can get paid for a user having “read” a book in Kindle Unlimited by getting the user to jump to the last page.

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.

[jobigoud]

YouTube does this. A "view" is only registered if the viewer has seen a certain minimum amount of the video.

[duskwuff]

> Is there a rational behind why they didn't want to track something like time per page or time spent within one book?

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.