Amazon is trying to persuade publishers to sign onto an ebook subscription service. Depending on the price and catalog, I could be persuaded to pay for something like this. On average, I purchase at least one Kindle book per month and frequently more than that. If Amazon makes something like this part of its $79 Prime service, the cost would likely be a wash for me and i may be more inclined to read books that I might not otherwise purchase individually. And I could still purchase the physical version of a book if I so chose.
I’m skeptical that publishers will go along with a subscription service, at least initially. The model is simply too different from the traditional sales paradigm to which they are so accustomed. But Amazon is probably one of the few companies that has a halfway decent chance of turning this idea into reality.
