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  • Audible Subscriptions and Kindle Unlimited

    Audible Subscriptions and Kindle Unlimited

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIf I spend 12 CHF per month on Netflix or 23 per year on CuriosityStream I think little of it. I expect to watch films and TV series once, and then to forget about them. With books and music I feel differently. With books I feel that it is worth paying for…

  • Amazon Kindle and Book Downloads

    Amazon Kindle and Book Downloads

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSome people are saying “Rush to download your Kindle Books because after the 26th of February you won’t be able to. My reaction is both neutral and to some degree indifferent. For me Amazon is destroying the reason for which people would buy from Kindle rather than other book sellers, but more…

  • Content Ownership in the Age of Streaming

    Content Ownership in the Age of Streaming

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Guardian has an article from yesterday that dicussses the fragility of content ownership in the digital age. Specifically it looks at how [“My whole library is wiped out”](https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/14/my-whole-library-is-wiped-out-what-it-means-to-own-movies-and-tv-in-the-age-of-streaming-services) after a streaming service stopped streaming content. It told people “pay 200 USD to move to service B”. I encountered this issue eight…