[citation][nom]pawessum16[/nom]Umm the library is free, has real books you can hold in your hands, is free, has no so called late fees (seriously what library has late fees? Mine just starts nagging me more and more until they call it lost and make me pay for the book), and oh yeah did I mention it is FREE (besides a few of your precious tax dollars)!!!!! Plus when you start getting into university libraries you start to find old limited print relics that you'd never find online.[/citation]
my library has late fees, somewhere along the lines of 10 cents a day, after 2 weeks. and as for university libraries... that's only for people who go to collage.
[citation][nom]formerlibrarianifyoumustknow2[/nom]Dewey Decimal Rocks . . . but RIP. . . . . . . . .[/citation]
no it doesn't. its a helpful way to sort books in the real world, ill give it that, but no one really is able to think "i want an art book that is XXX.XX" off the top of their head, they go over to the computer and search for art book, and find the numbers, and than go from there.
[citation][nom]LORD_ORION[/nom]If was an author, I would tell google to go take a flying F.I would not want 1 license of my book being floated between all the internet users of the world while google made a buck off of this advertising.[/citation]
google makes about 3$ per 1000 people on average. the number is more or less depending on who is paying for the advertising and where they want the advertising. and as an author, you get very little right to complain as it stands. be happy that you get to write for a living and people actually want to read what you write.
[citation][nom]cohetedor[/nom]I could see this working, maybe price it to match Netflix at 7.99 a month for unlimited books but only one downloaded at a time, then tack on say another dollar for each additional book you want out at the same time. Vast majority probably only get through one at most two a month but the convenience of not having to go to the library would be worth it for a lot of people.[/citation]
parents plow through books in 2-3 days. but average person, yea, 1 a month at best. now, at 1 a month, its cheaper to buy the books outright than to rent them like that.