Fourteen thousand books, every one of them licensed rather than scraped, and about sixty new ones a month. No advertising, no recommendation engine, no reading data sold to anybody, and no publisher paying us to put a title in front of you — there is nowhere to put it, because there is no store front and no carousel.
Downloading a book keeps it. If you stop paying, the books you downloaded stay readable and the catalogue closes; nothing is taken off your device and nothing is bricked.