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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 VLM on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:44PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:44PM (#200115)

    record reader behavior

    This could mean as much as recording video footage from the camera, or as little as simply not deleting the page sync feature.

    The page sync feature keeps my phone and tablet on the same page. I like it, I can use the dumpy little phone screen when I'm really bored, but look at the nice large tablet screen when I really want to read. Video footage analyzing my eye movements might be a bit too much.

    My gut level guess is the detailed analysis is just some SQLish sum of all users saved page numbers to get total page count. Its simple and reasonably effective.

    Note that this would be an epic fail for reference or text or cook books, it only works for literature.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @10:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @10:20PM (#200124)

    Hope you continue to like it after it's revealed that your reading habits have been sold. At first it will be as part of aggregated data, then somebody will figure out how to mux that data with targeting advertising at you personally.