The arrival of readings unlimited service subscription against Amazon, called Kindle Unlimited, is between warm and outcry. If the defenders of the subscription concept sometimes have it as a modern version of our old libraries, the latter however, still lag behind the digital offering, have nothing to worry about this new competitor. Rich, soon, a catalog of 600,000 titles available for less than 10 dollars a month, the troublemaker he could to steal the services of traditional loan
Some observers express the idea that the financing of the Amazon service would be similar to the libraries. Besides the cost of infrastructure and the launch of the offer would remain only add small fees paid to authors whose books are borrowed. Tim Worstall, a contributor at Forbes , raises the question of whether it would be profitable to close the physical library and return the community of readers to the new offer readings against subscription.
Tim Worstall believes that the firm Jeff Bezos probably accept a lower priced to the extent or service subscription will spend this cover the entire population. However, only a small segment of the population is made up of avid readers or book buyers. The payments to authors, regardless of the rate, then not possibly represent a significant cost to Amazon.
According to Worstall, which would have led institutions like the state to get involved in the care management services lending physical books would be linked to this paper and supply limitations that result. With digital books, things get changed find, and the observer suggests that migration to a service such as Unlimited Kindle would likely result in savings of public funds. The crisis could be resolved libraries closing them all?
Rest Tim Worstall has not asked about the missions of libraries beyond the mere supply of securities available to borrowing. If a public institution is willing to lose money to increase access to reading this is not the practice of a company like Amazon. It still awaits its return on investment and does not hide it. Besides the problems of arbitrary censorship that we hear about from time to time …
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