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Originally Posted by Quoth
An outlier. Many also have the experience that they sell as much or more wide as on Amazon.
Also KU is subscription. You pay even when you don't read. It invades privacy because of the stupid model. Amazon decides the pot shared to the page turns. Also unlike physical libraries (most of whom do ebooks now) they get the content free.
Your post, without any verified statistics, is helping a monopolist and hurting readers and authors. Support an actual library.
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What makes you think that I don’t? I pay for the Stark County Public Library and I’ve done so for two years. Prior to Stark I paid for Brooklyn for years. Riddle me this, when have KU titles been in the library systems?
There’s no such thing as ethical capitalism. I try to be as ethical as possible. But I’m not going to deprive myself of books I want to read. I read a lot. I subscribe to the 2 year subscription to get the lowest price and I’ve paid three times now. Again I don’t see this as being any different from a video streaming service to the end user. It’s not like when you subscribe to a service you’re watching that service 24/7/365. If you subscribe and you aren’t reading enough to warrant the subscription then that’s a you problem. I read close to 200 books a year so it’s not a problem for me. It would be more, but reading isn’t my sole personality trait. I have other interests and hobbies.
Also, I don’t care about the perceived privacy issue. I’ve had 4 Kindles and none have been in airplane mode longer than a few hours total. I love Whispersync so WiFi stays on. Even while out and about I’ll connect via my phone’s hotspot to sync and then I’ll put it in airplane mode if I’m going to be away from home longer than an hour. If I were actually concerned about privacy I wouldn’t have a Kindle in the first place. Hell I wouldn’t have anything to do with Amazon in general at all.
Finally, where are your stats?