> The company stresses that, if books are removed from Kindle Unlimited, they remain for sale on Amazon’s regular store. Kindle Unlimited pays authors out of s

> The company stresses that, if books are removed from Kindle Unlimited, they remain for sale on Amazon’s regular store. Kindle Unlimited pays authors out of subscription fees, based on pages read. There's a price per page read. [1] A pretty obvious fraud would be to get paid for reading (or at least skimming) by taking books you found elsewhere, uploading them, and reading them (probably with a different account). It's not easy for an automatic system to tell whether an author wrote a book themselves. This runs up the number of pages read and lowers the price per page, effectively taking money from other authors. So, this seems to fall under "business models that aren't very seller-friendly because fraud." Amazon, like most businesses, does tolerate some amount of fraud, but I guess there are limits? When people pay for specific books then it might be used as a money-laundering scheme, but at least it's not taking money away from other authors. [1] https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201541130 https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201541130