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Originally Posted by TheMadBrewer
What I really want is an e-library -- I would pay a reasonable subscription ($10/mo?) and could download a fixed number of books (3 or 4) that would expire after a month. When I deleted one from my reader I could download another. Sort of the Netflix model. If Amazon went that way with the Kindle I'd buy it in a second.
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That's brilliant. That's exactly how most consumers want to consume most e-books. There is value to have a pbook on the shelf but little value to have ebooks in your personal inventory once consumed.
Like the music industry, there are so many players that have investors and stock holders dependent upon old business models that I suspect it will take awhile for the consumer to get this. If it was just one company it could happen quickly, but as we all know it's an industry and an industry takes a while to change....