Re: Amazon Kindle's "Loan to anybody"

The trouble with Amazon is that they are big bullies. They try to squash anyone who gets in their way. And yes, I now see that my ebooks are "Loan to anybody", after I went for the 70% and I didn't even see this coming. I should have known it was too good to be true. The loaning itself, though, may not be so horrible because each ebook owner will probably not know that many people to "give" my books away to. Now if I was a hard hitter in the author arena, then it could be bad for my bottom line - (my bottom line is quite thin).
Elaine

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--- In [email protected], Brenna Lyons <brennalyons4168@...> wrote:
>
> This sort of controlled sharing is not a bad thing. A lot of people yell and
> scream. I am much more offended by the way Amazon went about not notifying
> publishers ahead of time and the way they are singling out people selling at
> the 70% royalty as not being able to opt out...yet another down side to the
> 70%. But the sharing itself, I believe is a good idea.
> 
> It's less sharing than either eLibWise or Nook sharing, both of which I
> support already.
> 
> Brenna
> 
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Elaine <evestudio@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Does anyone think that this is a good idea, and that it will cut into the
> > e-book author's profits? Or, do you think that "borrowing" a book may lead
> > the borrower to actually buy the book for their e-reader?
> >
> 
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