Speaking of Piracy -- Amazon and its Kindle lending tricks

[Larry]

Had an interesting chat with a head librarian today. It seems that when someone takes out an EBook from a library, the library pays the Kindle Select rental fee to Amazon. The libraries don't own the books. Then, of course, the person renting the book has already paid Amazon $79 bucks to be part of the program. It should be called the: Let's Make Amazon Richer, Quicker program. Authors and libraries take it on the chin while Amazon rakes it in. I also was told smaller libraries are NOT opting into the program because costs are too high. In addition, this enables Amazon to circumvent its own contract stipulation that an EBook can only be lent once for a single two-week period. Interesting is it not?

[Rowena, Group Owner]

Thank you for sharing this information, Larry.