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		programminggeek on July 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited I bet Amazon, Apple, and B&N's Nook have data on how much people read. In fact, I know that Amazon tracks how much people read. They know how many copies are sold, what people bookmark, what page they are on, etc... I bet they have analytics somewhere that could tell you all kinds of amazing things about each book. That would be incredibly useful to an author that cared to dig into how people interact with their work.

walterbell on July 16, 2014 [–]

Someone did a study recently using Kindle public highlights as a proxy for reading progress - not many books were finished :)

programminggeek on July 17, 2014 | [–]

Sounds about right.

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