Der Spiegel reports (original article in German):
Ab Juli wird dieser Pool nun nach konkreten Nutzungsstatistiken unter den Autoren aufgeteilt. Die kommen zustande, indem jeder einzelne Kindle-E-Book-Reader das Leseverhalten seines Lesers protokolliert und an Amazon zurückmeldet.
[translation mine] Starting in July, the pool of Amazon subscriber money will be shared among authors according to concrete usage statistics. The statistics will come from individual Kindle E-Books that will record reader behavior and communicate it back to Amazon.
Is this a model for content production in the future?
(Score: 4, Informative) by isostatic on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:07PM
From what I heard on the radio this evening, it only apply a to kindle unlimited, where you pay £x a month for unlimited books. Some authors were gaming the system.
(Score: 1) by octothorpe on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:10PM
It makes sense then.. In the streaming music equivalent, I would not want $crappy_artist to get paid for $crappy_song if I turn it off 10 seconds into the song after it comes on. But then, I'm sure I'm over-simplifying something somewhere.