Whether via public library or personal collection, e-books could be getting harder to borrow and loan out — HarperCollins put the squeeze on government-funded rentals last week, and today Amazon has disabled e-book sharing startup Lendle with one fell stroke. Lendle allows readers to trade e-book rentals, in a way, by tapping Amazon’s API to list books they comply with loan out, and in return, gain access to a Lendle database of books available to borrow from readers like themselves. The service allegedly fell under the auspices of Amazon’s existing 14-day, one-time-only loaning policy , but that didn’t stop Amazon from revoking Lendle’s access to the API, effectively shutting the service down. In step with the no-reply email Lendle received, the reason being that the service doesn’t “serve the principal purpose of driving sales of goods and services at the Amazon site.” Perhaps there’s some deeper explanation for the move, but that explanation certainly sounds pretty narrow-minded.
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