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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: 1) by Francis on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:44PM

    by Francis (5544) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:44PM (#200397)

    That's completely untrue. Reading was something you had to pay for until relatively recently. Newspapers, books, magazines, scrolls and libraries required payment.

    Ebooks are cheaper to produce, but they're not free. The only work you save is literally in printing and distribution l. Somebody still has to write, edit and do the layout.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday June 25 2015, @01:15PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday June 25 2015, @01:15PM (#200927) Homepage Journal

    Relatively recently? I've been reading free for half a century. Magazines and newspapers have been free to read in taverns, barber shops, Dr offices, etc all my life.

    Define "relatively". 1850 is "recently"? [wikipedia.org]

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