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Charbax · 10-30-2008, 12:12 AM

Consumer subscription is mentionned in the FAQ as one o the features that will be provided.

The question is how many books can Google get to be part of that subscription plan.

I expect for like $5 a month to start with, Google could provide unlimited access to books of which rights holders have opted in to be part of that full access subscription plan.

Quickly, millions of users will participate, and this will encourage more and more authors to be part of it, until it kind of becomes an industry standard for all authors to automatically make all of their works part of that full access subscription plan.

Later, a new law will provide that subscription plan to every citizen through taxes. Where everyone pays proportionally to their income and to their wealth.

How fast that transistion will take until everyone gets full unlimited access to the equivalent of Amazon Kindle Store, Project Gutenberg and Google Books put together. That will depend on how fast and how well Google integrates this new plan, and it depends on Google wanting to promote that subscription plan rather than on-demand pay-for-download plans. Perhaps Google like Apple thinks they can make more money selling each work at expensive prices by itself instead of providing the whole of it for a low affordable subscription price.

The new Rights Registry system that Google is setting up, it should provide a quick way for online bloggers and independent publishers to get their blogs, feeds and Google Docs publishings registered and quickly part of that exact same global access subscription plan.

Sure Google is not a hardware manufacturer yet. They think it's better to create the free open-source OS for other manufacturers to use. The problem is I think, if Google wanted to, they could be the best manufacturer in the world. Perhaps the best solution would be for Google to not only open their software, release it and give it away for free, but also to design the reference designs and also in fact mass manufacture the reference designs as well. And have the hardware reference designs also be totally open source if possible.

For Google to put some free, open, mass manufactured reference designs out there, and actually even sell them at cost price, skipping all intermediaries, directly from manufacturing to the consumers. This, I think, will enable even more manufacturers to take those designs and sell them.

Hopefully, Obama will take Eric Schmidt as country CTO, and this will let someone new come in and be the new CEO at Google, and change things a little, so Google becomes the USA's official tech company that not only provides the worlds best free open source OS, but also mass manufactures $100 laptops, $150 E-Ink readers, $100 Android pocket devices and $5000 Electric Cars.

10-30-2008, 12:12 AM	#26
Charbax Addict Posts: 203 Karma: 550683 Join Date: Mar 2007	Consumer subscription is mentionned in the FAQ as one o the features that will be provided. The question is how many books can Google get to be part of that subscription plan. I expect for like $5 a month to start with, Google could provide unlimited access to books of which rights holders have opted in to be part of that full access subscription plan. Quickly, millions of users will participate, and this will encourage more and more authors to be part of it, until it kind of becomes an industry standard for all authors to automatically make all of their works part of that full access subscription plan. Later, a new law will provide that subscription plan to every citizen through taxes. Where everyone pays proportionally to their income and to their wealth. How fast that transistion will take until everyone gets full unlimited access to the equivalent of Amazon Kindle Store, Project Gutenberg and Google Books put together. That will depend on how fast and how well Google integrates this new plan, and it depends on Google wanting to promote that subscription plan rather than on-demand pay-for-download plans. Perhaps Google like Apple thinks they can make more money selling each work at expensive prices by itself instead of providing the whole of it for a low affordable subscription price. The new Rights Registry system that Google is setting up, it should provide a quick way for online bloggers and independent publishers to get their blogs, feeds and Google Docs publishings registered and quickly part of that exact same global access subscription plan. Sure Google is not a hardware manufacturer yet. They think it's better to create the free open-source OS for other manufacturers to use. The problem is I think, if Google wanted to, they could be the best manufacturer in the world. Perhaps the best solution would be for Google to not only open their software, release it and give it away for free, but also to design the reference designs and also in fact mass manufacture the reference designs as well. And have the hardware reference designs also be totally open source if possible. For Google to put some free, open, mass manufactured reference designs out there, and actually even sell them at cost price, skipping all intermediaries, directly from manufacturing to the consumers. This, I think, will enable even more manufacturers to take those designs and sell them. Hopefully, Obama will take Eric Schmidt as country CTO, and this will let someone new come in and be the new CEO at Google, and change things a little, so Google becomes the USA's official tech company that not only provides the worlds best free open source OS, but also mass manufactures $100 laptops, $150 E-Ink readers, $100 Android pocket devices and $5000 Electric Cars.