New publishing services may do for books what
Netflix does for movies: allow readers
e-book or pdf access to a catalogue of books for a subscription fee, and
sometimes send authors or publishers feedback on which sections of a book were
actually read or loaded. The New York
Times has a story by David Streitfeld Christmas Day, “As new services track
habits, the e-books are reading you”, link here.
Self-publishers, the article says, will love
this. Something like Urchin statistics
or Google Analytics on e-books!
It’s always been assumed that when you publish a
book through public distribution companies, you have no right to know who
bought or read it. Advertisers, though,
seem to want authors, on both the web and in print, to know their audiences.
Smashwords looks like an interesting service and I’ll
probably get into it later on my Books blog.
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