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Originally Posted by barryem
It occurs to me that if digital media forces us to become selfish and immoral and mean spirited than maybe we should do away with it. Or maybe we should find ways not to let it make us small and mean.
Barry
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I'm of the opinion that at some point publishers will begin to go the same way as video and music - we'll all just subscribe to a service that provides unlimited access to large libraries of books. I'm pretty sure that Kindle unlimited is sort of a test of that idea already. It's clear to me that media providers in general are highly interested in consumers no longer believing that we own the media that we buy/rent/license, so that we can pay monthly fees that for most users will be more than they would have spent on the media anyway.