The Digital Reader

I’m sure you recall the leak earlier this week that Amazon are working on a Netflix-style ebook subscription service.  That leak caused a small flurry of similar services to come out of the woodwork, including Flatleaf, Afictionado, and now Litfy.

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The Wall Street Journal broke a story last night that Amazon are planning to offer a new all you can read subscription offer for their Amazon Prime members.

Amazon.com Inc. is talking with book publishers about launching a Netflix Inc.-like service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is great news for me. I’ve been wanting to see someone offer this kind of service for a couple years now; really ever since I got a subscription to Netflix.

The reason I like the idea (and why I think it could succeed) is simple. There are many books that I would like to read but I do not want to buy.

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