Making reader behaviour the author's problem would suuuuck for authors.
"Buy my book! Also read it please! Cover to cover! In the time frame the algo thinks it takes or it won't count!"
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It's just too messy, imo. Reader behaviour is the reader's business.
A year after launch it may make for some interesting trivia to see who read it in the year after buying it, but smaller time frames (as to be useful in post-launch analytics such as "best seller") are fraught.
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Silly anecdata: recently ran an experiment along the lines of the QT below, encouraging participants to read Quantum Country. It appears that roughly 2/3 of readers falsified their behavior! Lots of ways to improve that, I expect, but still v interesting.
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Brilliant concept by the inimitable @andy_matuschak. His metric would show how many "downloads" of an idea into people's brains had actually occurred.
It's like a way to track active installs for ideas. twitter.com/andy_matuschak…
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