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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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E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday June 23 2015, @07:45PM
The summary does say exactly what you said. It doesn't appear misleading. The submitter's question is even focused on the idea of paying content producers based on what subscription users are actually reading/watching. He did leave out the part that the change is because authors were being paid if someone just glanced at the first chapter and didn't actually read the book. Having a service where you don't have to pay for any book would lead to such behavior.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:00PM
> the change is because authors were being paid if someone just glanced at the first chapter and didn't actually read the book.
Seems like this is a correction too far in the opposite direction. Pay-per-page seems like it could lead to authors focusing on a narrow type of writing that would maximize pages read. If the problem was paying too much for people just browsing, then I would have gone with a threshold - if the subscriber reads less than X pages, the author gets a nominal payment and if they read more than X pages they get full payment.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:19PM
Yeah, i agree. They'll probably tweak their formula down the road. They did say that page count ignores the writer's font, spacing, and foreword stuff. The formula also takes into account how long you spend on a page. It ignores any second reading. Planning on sitting down with Anatham again soon and that book is not exactly a quick read. They should pay the dude again, lol. Though i guess if you really love a book you'll likely end up with the hardcover version.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Jiro on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:32PM
It's misleading because the headline makes you think that it happens for normal ebooks that you buy individually. It doesn't.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:05PM
Could be especially misleading if you didn't read the summary or the article or the comments.
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