A Spotify Service For Books
Imagine there was a place where you could browse a vast selection of fiction and non-fiction books, a place a bit like a bookshop – only, instead of buying these books, you could just borrow them, for as long as you liked. And for free! (Sort of.) Sounds a bit like a library, doesn’t it? It also sounds a lot like the business model for Oyster, a brand new digital service that does for books what Netflix does for films, and Spotify for music: in return for a monthly subscription fee, users can borrow from what it calls “an ever-growing collection of high-quality published works,” and read them on their smartphones.
