TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Caligo" <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> On 6/21/2011 6:04 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>>
>>> Another thing is that I actually like having real books in my shelf,
>>> just like CDs and computer games (it already pisses me off that the they
>>> are usually distributed in DVD cases now and not anymore in these big
>>> cardboard boxes).
>>
>> I do too, until there get to be too many of them! Then they're a burden.
>>
>> I have too many.
>>
>> I don't mind DRM on things that I rent, such as Netflix movies. I'd have 
>> no
>> problem renting books from Amazon that are DRM'd. I'd pay some modest
>> monthly fee to Amazon if I could 'rent' one book at a time on my Kindle, 
>> up
>> to so many per month.
>>
>> I also wouldn't mind DRM if the cost is low enough, but most DRM books on
>> the Kindle are at price points where I'd want to own them free & clear.
>>
>
> yall forgetting about digital libraries such as 
> http://my.safaribooksonline.com/
> As a university student I get free access and I can read anything
> anywhere.  The idea of ownership is obsolete. Strategic access is the
> future.

s/obsolete/not trendy/
s/Strategic/Restricted/