News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #7…

#41:  What's the deal with Amazon's new lending program?  For readers, as near as I can tell, you have to be an Amazon premium member, so right away that's a limitation.  I can't figure out what it means for authors, if anything.  As near as I can tell, Amazon chooses which authors to put into the program.  This means indie authors will get crumbs, if anything—but then again, the Big Six are not going along with the program just yet, so maybe Amazon won't have any legacy authors in the...