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Originally Posted by craig8128
I totally agree. It make me wonder if a "Netflix-like" approach to publishing would work? Call it "NetBoox"  Ie, $20 / month for "all you can read", where you can check out (say) 4 DRM'ed books at a time, with an option to purchase "permanent" copies of books you especially like. |
This is off-topic, but something like that already exists. O'Reilly "Safari" service offers you a subscription-based access to any of their books. Based on the plan that you chose, you put "X" books in your "bookshelf", and can read (and search!) them whenever you please. If you want to obtain a PDF version of the chapter, that is limited to "Y" chapters per month.
Truth to be told, O'Reilly publications are all about technology, and the service is more geared toward businesses who want to provide such reference material to their employees.
Would it work for novels? Depends on the collection. Netflix collection of shows offered to Canadians is not so great, so I am still keeping my (expensive as hell) satellite. Should that change in the future, a simple download to PS3 is but a click away...