Waterstones Spotify for Books: Is This Really the Future of Reading?

If you’re a long-term follower of this blog, you’ll remember I posted a hypothesis last summer about how a ‘Spotify for Books’ style platform would likely emerge in the coming months and years, offering readers a means to pay a flat fee and gain access to an on-demand library of digital books.

Yesterday evening, I stumbled upon a Telegraph article with the news that Tim Waterstone, founder of the UK’s biggest book retailer Waterstones, is gearing up for the launch of a platform called Read Pet...