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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: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Tuesday June 23 2015, @10:21PM

    by looorg (578) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @10:21PM (#200126)

    Assuming this is true every page would just end mid sentence or in a cliffhanger so you would be lured into or have to turn the page and read another page that would end the same way. It's like clickbait but for reading e-books or the concept of the actual page turner coming true.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:14AM (#200186)

    I am intrigued by your ideas, and...

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:16AM (#200187)

      ... I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.