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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
About the tier system - I kind of doubt it will happen, being a bit too complicated, such systems usually revert to the lowest common denominator - see for print books how the issue of a mmpb immediately drives the hardcover in the remainder bin, with several exceptions like high popularity books, or collector/library editions, but even those are dwarfed numerically by the corresponding mmpb.
I would think more of a reverse auction, with higher prices for immediacy, dropping in time
And I agree about advantages of ebooks - I would not call them "rights" - in instant delivery, ability to change fonts, no physical space taken, many ebooks on a device- there are others like search, hyperlinks... that are less useful for me overall
It all depends - but my original point is that I rarely see a "nuanced" discussion of advantages, disadvantages, what we as customers should expect/demand...
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A tier system might take the form of different sellers offering different plans, just as with music, rather than the same seller offering different plans.
It seems to me, for example, that a big ebook genre is romance novels, and I can imagine that they might be sold on a subscription basis, like the book of the month club.
I think you are right about the lack of nuanced discussions. We are all still thinking of ebooks as if they are the same thing as print books. But as Steve Jordan points out, they are really something different. At some point, a paradigm shift will probably occur - there was a time when novels were sold chapter by chapter, in magazine form. But now, we all think of Dickens as a writer of Fat Books, not serialized novels.