Unlimited Ebook Services

One of the great things about ebooks is that they're so easy to buy. One of the crappy things about ebooks...they're so easy to buy. It's easy to ignore the price tag, click "BUY" and see it show up in your digital library as the money disappears from your bank account. It's great to be able to carry your entire library with you, but that can get pricey. Two new services have emerged that can help. 

Scribd offers a subscription service for $8.99/month. Your first month is free, and you can choose from a library of over 100,000 books. Scribd's titles tend to be older, but popular books. With just a quick glance I noticed titles from New York Times bestselling authors Pearl S. Buck, Pat Conroy, and Michael Chabon. Scribd works on Android and Apple devices, and via a Web browser for any other device. 

A new startup called Oyster offers a library of over 100,000 ebooks for $9.95. Like Scribd, the first month is free. Unlike Scribd, Oyster is only available for Apple devices. Oyster has more partnerships with small publishers but there are some big names available, such as Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Best American Short Stories, and Dr. Phil McGraw. 

What do you think? Each service offers its own unique reader and an extensive list of titles. Could either one become the Netflix of ebooks?