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I thought this article posted on Twitter this morning by Wired was really interesting. It's sort of the old Harlequin Book Club (and others like it, including the penny westerns) for the modern world. I'm trying to decide whether it's a good or bad thing. I mean, there have been subscription services forever, and serial novels are nothing new, so could combining them be the solution to reaching people that seldom pick up a book? Or is it yet another way to rip off authors, by diluting the royalties paid on an individual book, and making it so the author has no idea how to follow the subscriptions or which books are being distributed? Part of me is excited about the potential, and another part leery of abuse. What do you guys think?