At the risk of having this reply deleted if the moderators decide ireadwrite is spam:
The website offers ebooks in three formats: PDF, ePub, and Mobi. Presumably, there's no DRM on any of them, which is good. Not all ebooks are available in all formats, and it's not instantly apparent which ebooks are available in which formats (each book has a dropdown menu for "select format.")
The "genres" include novel, short story, and classics. That's all. No fantasy, SF, romance, young-adult, humor, horror, mystery, or other genres that people normally use to decide what to read.
They want 50 cents for Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes, a book in the public domain. If they've done something with it other than import it from Gutenberg, that's very reasonable. If they've take Gutenberg's text and put it in PDF and Mobi form (it's not available as ePub), it's not worth the money.
Price is per format; buying the PDF doesn't get you access to the Mobi file, and so on.
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Writer's section implies that there's a minor review process only--submit works and they should be up on the site within 48 hours. There's no mention of any specific standards, other than that they'd like to avoid how-to works.
Right now, the site has very few works available, and is probably trying to pitch to writers more than draw readers. As a self-publishing ebook site, it's nowhere near as streamlined as Smashwords.com, and lacks the variety of filetypes available there.