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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I don't see this myself. It hasn't worked for music.
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So Amazon's interest in Netflix and iTune's movie rental doesn't signal a subscription interest by these content providers? I venture to say it is only a hop skip and a jump before you can "rent" various media from iTunes for a flat rate subscription fee like Netflix. Amazon is angling that direction too. Purchasing and ownership will still be available, but most people don't want to keep their paperbacks, thus why the second hand bookstores and libraries are so popular. With Google, they probably want to give it all away for free and pay for it with advertising. Publishers will prevent that, so a subscription model would make sense for them.