Sep 22 2015
After two years of operation, Oyster, which offered unlimited access to a million titles for US$9.95 a month Oyster, is shutting down, and it would seem that most of the staff will be employed by Google Play Books, including the CEO and two cofounders.
Tech news site Re/Code reports that Google has agreed to pay Oyster investors for the right to hire away most of the Oyster staff, but it is not clear whether Google is actually buying the company.
If Google was to launch its own version of Oyster, it would be in competition with Amazon, which launched its own $10-a-month ebook service in July 2014.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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