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Originally Posted by BWinmill
O'Reilly has (or at least had) such a library and I seem to recall them picking up titles from other publishers. The problem is that it was rather expensive, though they did offset the cost by offering a few credits every month to buy books. It also worked well in O'Reilly's case because they catered to a particular audience and offered an extensive library to them. I'm not sure how well that would work for an audience who reads for entertainment, and may be reading books from multiple publishers.
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The O'Reilly Safari library is an excellent resource, but also doubt it is a viable model for standard fiction books. The Safari library has four big advantages:
a) It has a focused audience
b) That audience is, for the most part, comfortably off
c) The service improves the earning capacity of the audience
d) Most of the audience don't actually pay for the service themselves, their companies do
You can always charge more for a a service the recipient doesn't actually pay for themselves
