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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well people borrow library ebooks. It kind of depends on whether your subscription model is a "buy" model (you keep the book ala Book of the Month Club ) or a rent model ( a la Netflix). Price would be different too.
You should probably not explicitly mention the TTCBRD, unless you want more hysterical rants and another closed thread.  |
I think it would be difficult not to for the same reasons as other forms of DRM.
I can't really see an all you can read subscription working. It would need to be priced at a level that would put off casual readers, and with reading being such a minority interest it wouldn't have enough hardcore readers to sustain it.
Book clubs, they only really worked because of the introductory offer of free (or as near as matters) books. Most people would have cancelled them as soon as the minimum term was over and then signed up for a new deal. With ebooks, there's no shortage of free ones (both legal and otherwise) to choose from so that incentive has gone.