The LendInk Disaster, Piracy, and the Successful Author

[image error]I must admit, I was a little behind on this one. Apparently, an ebook lending faciliter, LendInk, has gone the way of Napster, Kazaa, and some of our other favorite file-sharing sites. Thanks to a barrage of Facebook posts, Tweets, and even hate mail, the site was taken down by their host and hasn’t come back online since. It was a question of DRM (Digital Rights Management), piracy, and the constantly-changing world of Internet technology.

If you, like me,haven’t been keeping up with this iss...