Authors Guild Voices Concerns with 'Amazon's Library Lending Mess'
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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Authors Guild Voices Concerns with 'Amazon's Library Lending Mess'
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'License to Amazon's Lending Library is outside the bounds of the publisher's licensing authority'
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/37204
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/retailing/article/49504-authors-guild-voices-concerns-with-amazon-s-library-lending-mess-.html
'...The guild said Amazon’s rationale for putting books in the program without permission of publishers is based on a “tortured reading†of the e-tailer’s boilerplate contract with publishers. Amazon’s belief that paying the wholesale price for an e-book gives it the right to sell-e-books at any price, or give them away, as long as the publisher is paid is “nonsense,†the guild said...'
'..., “a license to Amazon’s Lending Library is outside the bounds of the publisher’s licensing authority. This isn’t a minor matter – in order to protect the author’s interests, all publishers should be asking permission before entering into such a bulk licensing agreement, and most would need to seek a contract amendment to do so.â€...'
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