[Thanks to Umbra]
Do you want to rent books? Amazon thinks so, article.Like Netflix and its monthly rental service that offers tens of thousands of streaming movies to consumers, Amazon is reportedly set to launch a similar service, but for books.
Len Edgerly mentioned this to me today while interviewing me for his podcast (more about this when it comes out). I said that it sounds iffy, because it seems like Amazon has many customers who spend a fortune on ebooks. With those costomers, $50 a month would be a big loss for Amazon, but for casual readers, $50 would sound obscenely expensive and they won't go near it. Soooo... I dunno.
What would make sense to me would be one or two dollars to rent one title for a month. You can take a chance on tons of books without breaking the bank, but if for a while you don't rent any, you don't pay anything.
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Oh, by the way, how come the Americans get streaming video as part of their Amazon Prime membership, but here in UK we don't? It's so typical, we don't get Netflix or Hulu either.
What would make sense to me would be one or two dollars to rent one title for a month. You can take a chance on tons of books without breaking the bank, but if for a while you don't rent any, you don't pay anything.
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Oh, by the way, how come the Americans get streaming video as part of their Amazon Prime membership, but here in UK we don't? It's so typical, we don't get Netflix or Hulu either.
1 comment:
Eolake said...
"Oh, by the way, how come the Americans get streaming video as part of their Amazon Prime membership, but here in UK we don't? It's so typical, we don't get Netflix or Hulu either."
The UK's archaic ways! Still back in the...Stone Ages! ;-)
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