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Juan said:
People will just stop buying...much like cable and satellite
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Just because people are dropping cable and satellite doesn't mean that they're dropping pay TV.

The delivery method of the future is surely in flux (and it may swing back occasionally to conventional once OTT providers start experiencing the same problems that conventional providers have had) so it is much to early to make such a call.

Nothing is sacred -- even NFL Sunday Ticket has an opt-out clause for both sides.
 
harshness said:
You don't need X-ray vision to see that you're going to need to pay for YouTube in the not-too-distant future.
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So the company that recently announced that its original content will no longer be behind a paywall is poised to turn the most successful ad-supported video platform and one of the largest social media platforms on the planet into a subscription-based service like Netflix and Hulu?

YouTube doesn't want to compete with Netflix. How Susanne Daniels is getting ahead of streaming wars

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Unlike many other streaming services, YouTube already has a large global audience, with viewers watching more than a billion hours of video on the platform each day. YouTube estimates it draws more than 1.9 billion viewers a month. Actor Will Smith alone has nearly 5.6 million followers on his YouTube channel, livestreaming himself skydiving.

The catch is that most watch videos for free — with ads — making it difficult to convince viewers they should join a subscription service to pay for content.

“There is a plethora of SVOD (subscription video on demand) services right now, and we do something really well,” Daniels said. “Our core business is outstanding and successful and, really, the No. 1 global video platform — so why not take advantage of our strengths and focus there?”
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Long before YouTube charges regular users to watch videos, I suspect they'll start charging people who make money from posting videos, or who have huge subscriber followings. And long before that, ads will become more prevalent than they already are, and YouTube will remove the option to skip ads after 5 seconds. And long before any of that, they'll have to do a much better job of getting rid of content on their site that violates copyright laws, because the last thing they would want to do is make money off of content posted on their platform in violation of copyright laws.
 
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Pay tv is following the same path the record industry did
harshness said:
Just because people are dropping cable and satellite doesn't mean that they're dropping pay TV.

The delivery method of the future is surely in flux (and it may swing back occasionally to conventional once OTT providers start experiencing the same problems that conventional providers have had) so it is much to early to make such a call.

Nothing is sacred -- even NFL Sunday Ticket has an opt-out clause for both sides.
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Libraries will still have books.

People want entertainment. If the video entertainment gets too expensive, they can find entertainment in books. For free.


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Excluding live events, like sports, what I really want is Spotify for TV/Movies. I pay one price to one company, and I get access to almost anything I might want to watch, and I have the choice of whether to get ads with my viewing or not, based on whether I am willing to pay extra for no ads.
 
Your local library almost certainly allows you to check out eBooks. For free.


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Juan said:
With a 2 week limit

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That varies by library. Both my city and county library systems offer three-week checkouts on all downloadable audiobooks and ebooks, same limit as print books and CD audiobooks. The harder limits are on DVDs (one week). And if no one has a hold on the title, those ebook/audiobooks checkouts are renewable. I save hundreds of dollars a year getting most my books from the library, though I occasionally take advantage of an exceptional flash deal ($2-$3) on Amazon for a newer release ebook with a long wait at my library. I still have zero need for an Audible subscription, though I read/listen to 40 to 50 books a year.
 
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navychop said:
Libraries will still have books.
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They'll still have newspapers and magazines too, but that's not really all that current if part of your entertainment involves following sports or regional topics. Reading news coverage is not the same thing as witnessing things for yourself.
 
harshness said:
They'll still have newspapers and magazines too, but that's not really all that current if part of your entertainment involves following sports or regional topics. Reading news coverage is not the same thing as witnessing things for yourself.
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reading has far far more detail or atleast it used to...newspapers lived off of ads...same as facebook and google do today...news papers are dwindling into obscurity
 
Juan said:
reading has far far more detail or atleast it used to...newspapers lived off of ads...same as facebook and google do today...news papers are dwindling into obscurity
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A simple video package can be worth thousands of words.
 
Bobby said:
I read ebooks exclusively. I spend a small fortune monthly on them....
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My wife and I also read ebooks exclusively. Being fulltime RV'ers, the thousand or so library of books on my tablet, phone, and laptop are much lighter than the dead tree versions. Probably 900 of those books were either free or no more than a dollar or two, typically through one of the several mailing lists of free and low cost books we subscribe to as well as from Amazon Prime. We also get ebooks from a couple of public libraries, including the huge NY City Public Library that extends membership to all NY state residents. And when we get the urge to read or reread one of the classics, we jump over to Project Gutenberg and usually find what we want, also for free.
 
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Are they making Project Gutenberg titles available in e-reader format now?

Back in the day, it was all plaintext.
 
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