The coffee is free.
But it is like the Hotel California.

Take your site, add in lots of your stupendous threads here, throw in an Alabama song; a few recipes, some Southern Comfort and publish it as an e-book.
Save time with DIY editing. Why should the author have to edit the book and explain everything with charts, and organize the flow? The readers can do that, if they are not too lazy, and screw them anyway.

They can check in
but they can never leave.