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I wish the publishers would allow their "deep backlist" on my ereader at all - in any form. There are loads of books that I'd like electronically, which are not yet published as ebooks - not sure why there isn't a market for it when so many have been privately scanned by people and could be had from the Dark Side. If this acted as an encouragement to make more backlist available, it would be great news. Perhaps a large pool of material that currently earns them next to nothing would be worth digitising as a pool of content for subscribers, without hitting their revenue for new titles.
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Does anyone really think the agency 6 will actually allow their eBooks to be rented? I think they won't. This won't work well without them (IMHO).
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That was also the argument Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings has made to studios-"rerun TV" as opposed to trying to compete with first run content. I think it worked initially, but the studios have become a lot warier. Hard to say how the publishing industry (even more conservative than Hollywood, it seems) will react.
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It will help increase piracy. You just rent the eBooks, strip the DRM and share away. It will cost a lot less to pirate then before.
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It will never happen, but I've always thought it would be cool to have something like Redbox...only for books! (They could put it right next to the one for movies lol).
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That argument did not stop the introduction of, and subsequent blossoming of the movie rental business. That argument will fail again, and for the same reason: if the publishing industry can make enough money off ebook rentals, it won't care if it becomes cheaper to pirate its content.
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Just ran across this:
Amazon Plans Netflix of Book Greg Tito | 12 Sep 2011 2:32 pm Filed under: greg tito, amazon, books, business, netflix image Soon you'll be able to subscribe to Amazon Prime and download any book to your device. Print is dead. People have been saying that for years but Jeff Bezos' Amazon might be the company that actually brings about the Book-mageddon. After the public resisting the concept of electronic books for a generation - even though we had the technology - Amazon's Kindle device has slowly saturated the market of the world's book readers. With the Kindle, you still have to buy a "copy" of electronic books - which can sometimes cost more than a paperback of the same title - but now in the works is a subscription model. Amazon will charge $79 for an annual membership to its Prime service, which will include unlimited downloads of any book in its library. As reported by the Wall Street Journal today, Amazon is negotiating with book publishers for such deals right now. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...etflix-of-Book and on CNET: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20...s-should-join/ |
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Thanks for the link Kenny - interesting, but the $6million question is how many publishers they could get on board. For keen readers, an all-you-can-eat deal like that would seem too good to be true - and I suspect it probably is. Still, we live in hope!
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I can easily see publishers bowing out of this rental deal and I would not blame them at all for doing so. It's bad for their business. Amazon gets $79 and for an entire yar, you can have as many eBooks as you can read. Not good for the publishers and the authors.
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Maybe Prime and "selected" books, like with "selected" videos?
But, yeah, seconding that $80 a year for unlimited books without waiting lists (assuming there are none) is not something that publishers are going to sign onto, I think. |
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