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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
That's not a fair statement. If KU adds more publishers that have the books that I want to read, then why would I not want to consider signing up. That's the whole point. Their current selection isn't good enough for me. The other services don't necessarily have a publisher's complete catalog available either. They want you to use the service to explore and find new authors and then purchase additional books that are newer releases, for example, and not in the service. I'm never going to read all 500,000+ books that Oyster or Scribd has available either. I just have to find enough to justify the cost of participation.
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Fair enough. It sounded to me that nothing interests you right now. If they add maybe 100 books that you do like since they got a new publisher to participate, then how are you going to know? It may not happen in huge steps, but little by little.
You can always look for what you want to find. If you look long enough for something worthwile to read, you will find. If all you do is look through your wishlist, and nothing pops up as you would have expected from others saying so, then you might wrongly assume nothing worthwile can be found at all.
Yes, I looked myself first and noted the lack of bestseller authors. Gave it some time and started looking at it the other way around - look what is there and if would be nice to read. And there is that for me - even seen that a lot of books already bought are part of KU.
Do the same with free library? Probably could do - except free is never free. I still pay for it. Imagine a library is not free, but has to be self sufficient. What would the cost be to the people using it if the only money comes from them?