While it's a good idea, at least for now I think the technological differences disrupt the parallels. For books, the only capital/tech barrier to entry is the s

While it's a good idea, at least for now I think the technological differences disrupt the parallels. For books, the only capital/tech barrier to entry is the singular entity of the book itself. The object of the book carries a complete copy of all the requisite information and a human interface for it with no further infrastructure requirements at all. It can additionally be read, than shared, sold, etc., with a life time of decades or more. But at least for now, streaming shows are inherently silo'd. You must have a subscription at some particular service, and there aren't any real "meta-service" bundles either which makes it fragmented even compared to something like cable. They're ephemeral, harder to trade around, etc. It's a significant amount of friction vs a book isn't it? If there is buzz and word of mouth about a book, anybody can simply go and get a copy for the one-time outlay of that copy, or borrow one from a friend/family, or for that matter go to the library (we have an entire public service dedicated to free availability!). But if someone tells me about a great show they watched on a service I don't subscribe too, well, it's probably not going to be enough to get me to sign on. I'm feeling pretty sub'd out. Maybe I'll go check a torrent site or something, but maybe not. I can't just tune in on that channel and check it out, or duck into a book store and read the first chapter then grab it or not. Books (and other low capex media in other countries for that matter) do show that huge culture-wide hits can emerge organically from enormous diversity and niche. But I wonder if the higher the technological barrier to entry the harder that is. It might be hard for it to happen without more cooperation between services, meta-services, a reemergence of some utterly dominating service/monopoly, or a legal imperative for interoperability or cross licensing after a delay.