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Originally Posted by llreader
I have to second this. Once you pay a monthly fee, there is pressure to "use it up" and read more books than you might want or time will allow. Subscription-based music services have not fared well. There certainly is a small market of avid -philes who would be in heaven with this type of deal, but I doubt how many of them would remain enthusiastic month after month, year after year.
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I don't think that music based subscription services are the right point of comparison, which is why I chose Audible to make my comparison.
You are right about the psychological pressure of the monthly fee, but the way most people on this board devour books, I don't see it as a big problem.
I think the key would be to reach a critical mass of available ebooks, and that might be the barrier since the big boys might start making exclusive deals to keep ebooks out of other formats. The one thing that a Readible service would need would be a spectrum of formats for each book.