03-21-2011, 04:59 PM | #1 | |
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Lendle: Amazon has revoked Lendle's API access
https://twitter.com/#!/lendleapp/sta...19939456409601
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03-21-2011, 05:05 PM | #2 |
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What exactly is it that Amazon has done to shut down this site? What does "revoked their API access" mean?
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EDIT: They used Amazon's Advertising API. That has nothing to do with the lending technology and tracking their users borrowing/lending ratio. Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-21-2011 at 05:15 PM. |
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03-21-2011, 05:14 PM | #5 |
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That's what I thought: I don't see how any involvement from Amazon is necessary for this. I wonder if they were perhaps a "front" for exchanging illegal material?
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03-21-2011, 05:19 PM | #6 | |
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This has been my main concern with these lending clubs. How does the hosting site know their users are only exchanging copies of ebooks whose DRM will cause them to expire after a certain amount of time? |
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03-21-2011, 05:24 PM | #7 |
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Wow. This is terrible news. I enjoyed using Lendle.
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03-21-2011, 06:24 PM | #8 |
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I had just signed up for Lendle a few days ago. The website used the API to retrieve information about ebooks sold by Amazon (e.g title, author, cover image, whether it is lendable or not, ...). It'll be pretty difficult for them to resume operations without access to this data, they essentially will have to maintain their own separate database of ebooks.
As for the piracy concerns: Lendle was just a match-up service; the actual ebook exchange was performed by use of the official mechanism provided by Amazon, with all its associated restrictions. Still, you can see how the publishers fear a loss of revenue from this kind of sites (then again, they have the option of revoking the lendable status of their titles at any time). Last edited by alsaan; 03-21-2011 at 06:33 PM. |
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Surely I'm not the only one that recognizes this? Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-21-2011 at 07:34 PM. |
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03-21-2011, 07:34 PM | #10 |
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I suppose but such networks already exist. Building a network around legal lending with the same 'I have, I want' listings you mention makes perfect sense to me.
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Is it really the function of any internet site/message board to police the entire lives of their users? |
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03-21-2011, 08:02 PM | #12 | |
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Keep the lending casual... unorganized. Otherwise... everything that publishers feared about ebook lending will have come true. Piracy's going to happen... it can't be stopped, but we don't have to build the pirates a brand new ship and give them a crew to sail her with. Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-21-2011 at 08:11 PM. |
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03-21-2011, 08:06 PM | #13 |
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*sigh* the more people push the limits, the more we will get restricted. i'm quite happy with casual lending. if people strip the drm of the books, does that mean the borrower can keep them?
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03-21-2011, 08:11 PM | #14 |
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Well from what I remember of Lendle (it's down now and I can't check) I don't think there was any sort of member list or PM function. Basically you put in the name of the book you wanted to borrow. There was some sort of algorithm thing on how good of a "Lendler" you were --- how many books you had listed and how many you had loaned out --- that would give you a priority number.
When your number was at the top and a book became available, the site would contact the person who owned the book requesting them to lend it to a specific email address. So there really wasn't a whole lot of behind the scenes member contact to swap unauthorized books. You'd have to do it through email, off boards and that would be after you'd already had an exchange. At least that is the way I remember it. |
03-21-2011, 08:47 PM | #15 |
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I don't think that Amazon is worried about people using this to strip the DRM and share the books. They just don't want total strangers using websites to lend each other books.
CNet claims they railed 2 other sites as well, but didn't specify which ones: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20045633-93.html I'm not surprised this got shut down -- in fact I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. |
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