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