In an earlier thread, I speculated that booksellers would create a service where they would host books " in the cloud" and stream the books to e-reader devices in return for a monthly subscription fee. People were horrified at the very thought of this . They condemned me as a tool of the publishers, told me that this scheme would destroy the " rights" of ebook consumers and declared that the user experience would necessarily be awful. Now HTML 5 reader apps are viewed as the salvation of ebook consumers, rescuing them from Apple's evil new policies.
Maybe I was just ahead of my time, or something .