Or, You can pry my free books from my cold dead fingers
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So, today I’m on LinkedIn and I see this as a “top headline in online media”: Amazon Working on a Netflix for Books. You know, Amazon’s come up with this revolutionary idea: you can check books out and the return them and then get more books. It’s gonna be big. Um, hi, it’s called a library.
Except that actually, it’s a pretty sucky library. According to Mashable:
“The details about the project are scarce, but it appears that the library would primarily contain older works with restrictions on how many books a user can access each month.”
So, it’s a library with only old books that limits how many I can take out – oh, and it charges me for the privilege? Doesn’t really sound like a library that I would use, even if it were free. (Okay, I lied, I’d use it, but I’d complain about it – a lot, probably on this blog.) Continue reading
