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E-books make sense to have as a purely service model like music. The problem is that Scribd and Oyster have horrible selection. They didn't wait until the publishers fully buy in like Spotify did.

The e-book manufacturers should either remove the DRM like the music companies did, or allow a purely service based unlimited model like Spotify, Apple Music, Rdio. Trying to mix the two is very frustrating. If it is a service model you can take your $10 a month at any time and move to another provider. Your book collection is totally portable, because your book collection is your currency. That is how it works with music services. Of course you may need to write down a list of all the books.

The most portable and universal thing is your currency, so if you can make it a pure service you are set.

If you buy e-books right now you are essentially saying it is a one time read for it to totally not matter. Otherwise you have to mix all your store shelves and can't blend them together well and are chained to the store.

It is true that ultimately the final destination of the book is in your brain so no matter what store you get it from it will end up there. That is another way of looking at it, especially if you only intend to read it once, then it doesn't matter who you bought it from. Putting aside the cost of owning multiple store's reading devices.