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E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the somebody-is-feeling-cheap dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 1) by octothorpe on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:10PM

    by octothorpe (1434) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:10PM (#200041)

    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.