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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:14PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:14PM (#200073) Homepage Journal

    i prefer just to write web pages but i want to reach readers who prefer enooks.

    however i dont want to go through amazon. consider that many of my readers are mentally ill. i dontwant amazon to log their interest in my books.

    is there a way that some can load my ebook onto their kindle without going through amazon?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:21PM (#200079)

    I don't trust web pages. The sharp angled brackets are all conspiring to give me painful paper cuts.

    Post entire texts of your books to the comments sections of popular news-for-trolls sites. You're sure to reach mentally ill readers that way.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:35PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:35PM (#200090) Journal

    Package it as a file and link it on your site.

    You can use Calibre [calibre-ebook.com] or something to convert HTML to EPUB MOBI.

    Kindle supports [wikipedia.org] TXT, PDF, and HTML but some or all of these aren't "reflowable". So just convert to MOBI.

    To get non-Amazon ebooks onto the Kindle, you can just use the USB-to-microUSB cable that came with the device to drop files in a directory, or use Calibre to manage the transfer of ebooks. Amazon also gives an email address to Kindle users. You can email a file to that address, and it will be converted to a supported format for you.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:26PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:26PM (#200365) Homepage Journal

    Yes, it's easy, have a look at my site. I'm using Calibre to convert books to epub and awz3, writing PDFs with Open Office, and have formatted the books' HTML so it looks like a book. Just upload your e'book to to your site and link it from your web page.

    Just look at my HTML to see how to do it. Hell, you can borrow my code if you wish.

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