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Amazon Stymies Lendle E-book Lending Service

Posted by Soulskill on from the pulling-the-rug dept.

CheerfulMacFanboy writes "CNET quotes Lendle co-founder Jeff Croft: 'They [Amazon] shut the API access off, and without it, our site is mostly useless. So, we went ahead and pulled it down. Could we build a lending site without their API? Yes. But it wouldn't be the quality of product we expect from ourselves.' Croft also said 'at least two other Kindle lending services got the same message' yesterday.'"

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  1. the Right to Read by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Human are naturally unwilling to express their creativity which is why we need to restrict the right to read so they have financial incentive to do stuff, right?

    You have no right to be lazy, educating yourself and being productive out of enjoyment. To aim for an Ancient Greek society with technology as a replacement for slavery is insane. Your only right is the right to be worked^W^Wwork. Everyone who doesn't enjoy this right is just lazy - remember to be divided and conquered and engage your bitterness to turn against your fellow man even while he wants a better life for you. Then turn your brain into a tradable commodity. Hemos pasado!