There are several ways of accessing fiction.
Do you buy?
Do you borrow?
Do you loan (libraries)?
Do you steal?
Do you download?
As my tastes have deviated towards classic fiction, I've found that 90% of what I want to read can be loaned from local libraries, given that you can pay in the excess of £10 for a read then you're saving mullah, haven't said that: how much do you value the ownership of a book? People like to build their own book collections, personally I like to read and move on, I'm a minimalism at heart. Not to be forgotten, is the advent of the internet; people can download eBooks illegally for free (a young version of how the music industry is now geared) -- the Sony Reader has the potential to penetrate the book market offering a innovative alternative to reading books. Will we be doing this in the future?