Subscribing to literature …

… Prepare your Eyeballs, E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming | Gadget Lab | Wired.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Access to e-books as part of a subscription is nothing new. It started, of course, with the public library you might remember from childhood. In a more modern equivalent, Amazon Prime members with Kindles have access to the online retailer’s Lending Library containing over 300,000 titles with no due dates. The downside is both have a finite number of copies that can be checked out. Public libraries have a limited number of licenses for each title, and the Kindle Lending Library limits you to one book at a time.