I went in to Scribd today to look through the April Selects choices - the entries you can read in April without counting against your monthly susbcription. The Selects group has looked subtly scaled back from time to time in previous months, but this time the cut-back seemed more dramatic to me - I noticed many fewer genre fiction choices, with fewer from major publishers, for instance.
They've gussied things up by creating new subgenres and listing books in as many of them as might apply, but I can only assume they're spending less on these entries.
I've gotten my money's worth out of the subscription model so far, but I've always figured it'll be a race whether Scribd shuts down before it loses too many features to be worthwhile to me. At first glance, I'll still find Selects books to read this month, but this feels like one step closer to the end. (And then I can make more headway on my TBR pile, right?
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