Oyster - A Rental Service for e-Books

If you've been waiting to rent, rather than buy, books in electronic format, here's your first opportunity:  Oyster.  The company claims that "Readers can access and read over 100,000 titles across every genre—from international bestsellers and celebrated classics, to cult sci-fi and seminal biographies."  The service costs $9.95 per month.

Access to this service is by invitation only.  If you're interested, click over and give them your email address. But be aware:  They are only offering books from HarperCollins at this time and it's only available for the iPhone.

If you'd lke to learn more about it before you sign on, you can read a more in-depth review on the Book Riot blog. Blog post author Jeff O'Neal is pretty excited about it, but I have to say that the concept excites me, yet the limitation to a single publisher isn't such an exciting idea.  Still, for the price of a single book, you have access to thousands.