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 takyon on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:35PM
Package it as a file and link it on your site.
You can use Calibre [calibre-ebook.com] or something to convert HTML to
EPUBMOBI.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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