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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You make a very good point there about 'not owning' the physical object. A lot of the big pundits on the future of publishing are predicting a fully subscription, cloud based delivery service will be the only sustainable model in the future. The big problem with this is: who do you subscribe to? If every publisher has a model like Marvel $50/year which one do you choose? Will you have to choose the full model to get access to a single title (the publishers would love this one by the way)? Marvel is pretty distinct in its fanbase and has a lot of brand loyalty, but which publishing company can say it has the same? Baen? Well, Baen would be the only one out there, and maybe the big Romance one, Harlequin is it?
All things said and done, if you're charging for samples, you really should GTFO  |
This brought into mind the problem Amazon customers are having getting updated copies of books originally published with formatting flaws (LOTR for example). Amazon states they back up all your purchased books on their servers. I always assumed they would simply have a file of links to book titles per customer, perhaps with customer notes, etc. linked to the PID of their Kindle. Apparently Amazon stores the entire book per customer - since customers that deleted the faulty copy and redownloaded the title still got the same flawed copy. So in this context, you really do "own" the book - or at least are irretrievably linked to one version of it linked to your account.
