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

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: 3, Insightful) by Jiro on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:32PM

    by Jiro (3176) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:32PM (#200088)

    It's misleading because the headline makes you think that it happens for normal ebooks that you buy individually. It doesn't.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:05PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:05PM (#200099)

    Could be especially misleading if you didn't read the summary or the article or the comments.

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