As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You (Published 2013)

Scribd engineers, above, at work in San Francisco.Credit...Peter DaSilva for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Before the Internet, books were written — and published — blindly, hopefully. Sometimes they sold, usually they did not, but no one had a clue what readers did when they opened them up. Did they skip or skim? Slow down or speed up when the end was in sight? Linger over the sex scenes? A

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読者の嗜好にあわせるのに汲々してると本なんて書けなくなるって話ですが、シズラーがサラダバー食べ放題にして(中略)会社つぶれた、って例が示す「読み放題サービスの実効性ってどないやのん」ネタも興味深

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こうしたことが常態になると、小説はすべてハーレクイン化していきそうだ。「作家」は「アクセサリー」としてしか存在しなくなる。