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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
I think you will find that a sustainable business model for the subscription service is not necessarily a sustainable business model for the publisher. If someone came to you and said "Work for me but I can only afford £1 per hour or I will go out of business" I suspect they would not get a happy response.
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KU is still a sustainable business model, on the grounds that the publishers with the unhappy response aren't the only source of books.
Competition.
#1 goal of the service should be: figure out a way to not go bankrupt as a matter of course.
#2 goal: find people willing to work with your *sustainable* business model.
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Cows, Goats, Sheep, sure, but the purpose of buggy whip's was to ride in them not herd them up. Ok, yes I know it was a typo but couldn't resist 
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If I had meant to say BPH, I wouldn't have said BWM. That isn't a typo.
BWM -- as in, makers of legacy products that serve little purpose now the world has moved on, and aren't adapting to the change.