Comments on: Netflix’s new instant-watch movies online—and the browser model for e-books http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/01/16/netflix-and-the-browser-model-for-e-books/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: » Browser Compatibility Tools http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/01/16/netflix-and-the-browser-model-for-e-books/#comment-807299 » Browser Compatibility Tools Thu, 22 May 2008 04:23:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6068#comment-807299 [...] Netflix’s new instant-watch movies online—and the browser model for e-books | TeleRead: Bring th... [...] [...] Netflix’s new instant-watch movies online—and the browser model for e-books | TeleRead: Bring th… [...]

]]> By: Richard http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/01/16/netflix-and-the-browser-model-for-e-books/#comment-191971 Richard Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:22:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6068#comment-191971 I've been waiting for Netflix to stream movies. I just wish they were doing it across cable TV pipes rather than the Net (and anything rather than via Windoze). But this brings us one step closer to a true film Mecca: anything, anywhere, whenever. The ebook biz can definitely learn from this. Just the other week when I ordered Thomas Bernhard's The Voice Imitator, I came upon tantalizing samples online at the publisher. I was keen to read the entire book at that moment. Instead, a few pointless calls around to the local big box booksellers later (there are no surviving indy bookstores in my three-college neighborhood), I was in Amazon limbo, as usual. Wouldn't the U of Chicago Press have preferred to get the full 10 clams for itself for the price of an email and a PDF? I’ve been waiting for Netflix to stream movies. I just wish they were doing it across cable TV pipes rather than the Net (and anything rather than via Windoze). But this brings us one step closer to a true film Mecca: anything, anywhere, whenever.

The ebook biz can definitely learn from this. Just the other week when I ordered Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator, I came upon tantalizing samples online at the publisher. I was keen to read the entire book at that moment. Instead, a few pointless calls around to the local big box booksellers later (there are no surviving indy bookstores in my three-college neighborhood), I was in Amazon limbo, as usual.

Wouldn’t the U of Chicago Press have preferred to get the full 10 clams for itself for the price of an email and a PDF?

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