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Originally Posted by hannahi
Does anyone have Oyster and if so how does it compare to Scribd? FWIW I read mostly romance (duh!), YA, mystery, and nonfiction like self-help and memoirs.
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I can't seem to find a complete listing of the books available by genre on Oyster, at least on Scribd, even without a subscription, you can see the exact numbers. So I compared some of the books they pull up on Oyster when you click on romance. Pretty much everything I see on Oyster, in the limited selection they give me, is on Scribd. The only publisher I noticed so far that is on Oyster, but not on Scribd is Crimson Romance.
And I don't know if self published works are on Oyster like they are on Scribd through Smashwords. That gives some of the back list stuff and bigger SP authors that aren't doing the Select thing so they aren't exlusive on Amazon. Those are the ones I can't get through prime lending for example. I was just reading "The Will" by Kristen Ashley on Scribd for example. Didn't like it, but there it is.
eta: forgot to add that Oyster is only for Apple devices right now. They don't even have an android app.