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If I were designing the world...
All book would be available digitally. There would be no geographic restrictions. There should be a service comparable to a library where you can "rent" ebooks temporarily - but without the limitation of having to wait for someone to "return" a book before someone else can access it, and with a really big selection. That might be either a fixed fee, say, $30 a year, or if publishers worry too much about that, a small fee per "rental" - say, $0,50-$1.
Ebooks for people to keep permanently would be sold for $5 or less - I'm open to higher prices for "early adopters", analogous to hardcover vs paperback now.
$1 for a song I want to add to my collection to listen any time, as often as I want, seems like a fair price to me (though a bit of a "bulk discount" for an entire album is nice). I would rather that the shop lets me listen to the whole title before purchase - I really can't decide from a 30 second sample if the entire song is my thing.
Movies I'd handle and price the same as ebooks.
TV shows... I'm really not sure. I hardly watch any.
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