Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and Audiobooks

Re:Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:51PM (#8043793)

Well as long as they aren't Hachette books :-)

My thinking on this has evolved over time. Especially with NetFlix. The 'stream what ever you want' service is great if 'what ever you want' is actually available, but something that it turns out is even more important for me, is that something you wanted before, is still available now. I go back and read books sometimes, and I go back and rewatch movies of TV shows. The random loss of content on Netflix has forced me to go back to buying the DVDs and ripping them rather than depend on NetFlix to have on tuesday something they had on Friday.

For reference books especially, it would drive me insane to have the book available, and then not available.

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Re:Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and... by vlunkr on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @03:23PM (#8043966)

This bothers me as well. After you've watched something several times on Netflix and then it isn't available, I feel like they've taken something valuable away from me, even though I never owned it in the first place.

But this often results in me buying a physical copy, so I suppose that's a win for the movie studios.

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