Just as Netflix offers all the movies you can watch and Rhapsody offers all the music you want to listen to or download to your mp3 player for a flat monthly fee, I wished Amazon would let me read as many books as I want online for a flat fee per month. I would gladly pay it.
Amazon has already loaded the entire contents of books for its search inside service, why can't they just take the next step and give me total access for a flat monthly fee. This is a case of the technology exists but fear stops it.
I'm sure the publishers are afraid the books will be copied and distributed accross the internet for free, but there's nothing to stop this now. One could quickly type or scan any book into an electronic file now and put it on the internet. Why doesn't this happen? It doesn't happen because people don't want to be arrested or sued.
Subscription based services are where the music, video, and books industries are going eventually anyway, especially once we have fast wireless internet access everywhere. Why do they waste time dragging their feet and actually encourage piracy by their resistance.
AMAZON, PLEASE PUT BOOKS ONLINE AND ON YOUR KINDLE FOR A FLAT FEE.
p.s. I would buy an iPod for music but Steve Jobs doesn't think subscription makes sense. Well, I don't think buying music makes sense.
With Rhapsody I can listen to anything, anything at all and it cost a lot less money. Poor iPod users can only listen to what they've purchased and they spend a lot of money getting a very small fraction of what I can listen to. The Netflix model ROCKS.
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