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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I imagine the properous future of e-books is the Netflix/Blockbuster Online subscription model. Change me a fixed monthly fee and allow me access to "x" number of texts at a time that I never actually own. the Kindle would allow this sort of model, beaming me new books and killing old ones remotely. I'm not saying it is ideal. Many of us like to "own" books and this is just renting. But I think it'd be a feasible model for economic success in the e-book world.
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This is basically what Sony tried with the original "Librie" book reader in Japan. It was a commercial catastrophe. Seems that people just don't like "expiring" content when it comes to eBooks.