[nicky0]

When readability started it had an innovative business model: collect monthly from each user, and share out 70% to the owners of the pages viewed.

However, a number of bloggers and content owners objected to this, and made bug fuss about it, and pretty much poisoned the "with it" tech croud on the idea of Readability.

Readability then pivoted to a more conventional read-later app and read-now service. But it never seemed to recover from its original bad press.

[dredmorbius]

I vaguely recall that. Pity, all 'round.