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

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> 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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