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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. Re:Hay guyz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You clearly don't yet understand.

    Amazon don't get to decide what I do with my physical book after I've bought it.

    They do get to decide on every aspect of it if I buy an electronic copy. Copyright governs "copying" . In the digital world absolutely any use of any kind INVOLVES COPYING.

    For digital material "copyright" becomes a pervasive access control mechanism - which it was never meant to be.

    It's not acceptable. But hey... you keep on kidding yourself that it's all ok.