Amazon's new Kindle lending program causes publishing stir – latimes.com

Good grief! It is already so difficult for an author to make a living. Now Amazon wants to give away titles for free to suck people into its subscription service.

It is true they have paid for the ability to do this already through their wholesale agreements–but offering a publisher's list free undermines everyone. (Even those folks who are self-pubbing and trying to sell books.) Certainly, they can't keep it up for long. They've got to make money somewhere else–but it's such a big entity that that shouldn't be a problem.

Geesh!  What next?

Shutta

 

Amazon's new Kindle lending program causes publishing stir – latimes.com.