{"id":16502,"date":"2015-09-22T14:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16502"},"modified":"2015-09-22T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:49:50","slug":"oyster-ebook-subscription-service-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16502","title":{"rendered":"Oyster eBook subscription service to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liliputing.com\/2015\/09\/oyster-is-shutting-down-its-subscription-ebook-service.html\"><strong>Liliputing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports on the impending closure of the <strong>Oyster eBook subscription service<\/strong>. It looks like the all-you-can-eat &#8220;<strong>Netflix for books<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0they offered is\u00a0too hard to swallow.<\/p>\n<p>The commitment of time require for reading books makes adoption of such\u00a0subscription services nonsensical\u00a0for all\u00a0but the most voracious readers.\u00a0It&#8217;s impossible to\u00a0make a <strong>$9.99 monthly<\/strong> membership\u00a0pay unless you read a minimum of at least one book every two weeks, something that time-starved, media bloated modern living makes a challenge for most\u00a0of us.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that Oyster\u00a0and other eBook subscription services like<strong> Amazon Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> and <strong>Scribd<\/strong> may have bitten off more than <strong>we<\/strong> can chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liliputing\u00a0reports on the impending closure of the Oyster eBook subscription service. It looks like the all-you-can-eat &#8220;Netflix for books&#8221;\u00a0they offered is\u00a0too hard to swallow. The commitment of time require for reading books makes adoption of such\u00a0subscription services nonsensical\u00a0for all\u00a0but the most voracious readers.\u00a0It&#8217;s impossible to\u00a0make a $9.99 monthly membership\u00a0pay unless you read a minimum of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16502\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16506,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16502\/revisions\/16506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}