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Could be I am wrong, but I think a big threat/competitor to subscription services, in Canada at least, are the public libraries. They do seem to keep getting better in BC at least.
You cannot get everything immediately but you can get so many things immediately, and many many bestsellers as well.
I tend to like backlist, at least until I have caught up completely on all of the series and authors I am currently addicted to. Since I have been reading grown up books for more than 50 years, I have a pretty long list and my libraries are carrying more and more of them every week it seems. This is despite my perception that they focus on bestsellers pretty heavily, getting as many as 50 copies within a day or so of publication.
They face some problems in that all publishers will not sell to libraries, but I think subscription services face the same problem?
Helen
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