[magic_hamster]

I mean, she could just download pirated books at this point. It doesn't matter if she got it through the store or not if she's going to exploit the system to read it without paying. The author won't see any money either way, so she can drop the pretense.

[thatguy0900]

I would imagine the author would rather you just pirate the book than do this. Returns on a book can't be great for recomendation algorithms.

[kennend3]

After Amazon's fees, returning books like this COSTS authors money.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tiktok-trend-authors....

[rdtwo]

Nah authors aren’t part of the equation, they got paid and now the publisher is the only party affected