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Originally Posted by barryem
I think it's entirely possible that things will go that way. Personally I prefer to buy my ebooks but I'd be okay with a subscription service if it included all the books I might buy.
With one caveat. I'm 78 years old now and I have a few health issues, not major ones, but they're enough to make me wonder when I'll end up in a nursing home or something like one, instead of the kind of retirement home I'm in now. I can buy books at the moment. My money is my own. Those places keep your money and give you an allowance and at that point the only books I might have available are ones I already own. That makes a subscription service a bit scary.
Barry
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Of course, you can still buy music and movies. I generally still buy my favorite albums and movies. I would not be surprised if ebooks eventually turns out the same way. I do think that one of the big differences between books and music/movies is that a very large percentage of the book reading public don't buy very many books over the space of a year. There is a lot of book buying for vacations (thus the term beach book) and travel. I'm not sure that the economics of a subscription service really matches that dynamic.