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Originally Posted by ApK
It's not $10. It $10 PER MONTH.
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My point exactly! You pay $10 for this subscription service; meanwhile, regular e-books, be it from Amazon or elsewere, still go for $10 or more. By supporting a subscription service such as Oyster, publishers would cannibalize the regular e-book sale (at least, you'd think that's what they'd fear most, considering that they fear any kind of technological advancement). Just think about the Kindle text-to-speech feature and why it went AWOL. The majority of publishers hated the idea that something, anything, could take away something from their traditional market shares.