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Originally Posted by JoeD
Not only that but you'd need to ensure you buy/read one book every month. Miss a month or so and your subscription works out more expensive than buying, and that's not including borrowing off of friends / family too.
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Agreed - that was something I mentioned in the feedback section. Some ability to "carry over" books would be nice. Some months I have a lot more free time to read than others, so I may only read one book this month but read ten next. If I can keep them, it's not as big an issue than if I can only read them during that month. And if I can only read them during the month, what happens when I'm ten pages from the end, the dapper Belgian detective is about to announce who murdered the butler, and the clock strikes 12:01 AM on the first of the next month?
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I doubt the service will work with my reader though, at least not without ripping the DRM.
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They mentioned bundling a reader along with the subscription a couple of times. I rather thought the lack of an "I'm not interested in that since I already have a reader, thanks, but I might have a look if your plan is compatible with the hardware I already own" button was something of an oversight. Well, it's the curse of e-books - we won't see an equivalent of Spotify or Netflix until we get something that will play back on generic hardware.