Boston Globe Article Highlights Netflix Copy-cats
Thanks to a link from Scott Kirsner at Cinematech, I was directed to a very interesting article in the Boston Globe about companies offering rental-by-mail services that are based upon the Netflix model. These include Gamefly (which rents video games), Simply Audiobooks (self-explanatory), and GreenCine (which rents rare and artsy films). Many of these services, however, like Netflix, are accepting the fact that downloading is the future (Simply Audiobooks already offers it).
Read the full article here.