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Originally Posted by tammycravit
I guess I'm confused by the negative sentiment, too. It strikes me that Amazon could be going about promoting change with the publishers in a very smart way: once 14-day one-time lending has been in place for a while and the sky hasn't fallen, Amazon would be in a position to say "see, publishers, the sky hasn't fallen. Let's open this up a bit more." That's at least as plausible as the idea that the company behind (according to one number I saw recently) 70% of e-book sales would just blindly follow B&N.
Remember, the publishing industry is deathly afraid of change (see "agency model" and "drm"). Any change that's going to come in their business model is going to be kicking and screaming. That they're willing to allow lending at all is a step in the right direction.
You don't usually win a war at the first battle.
And, if lending isn't useful for you because you don't know other Kindle users, or you don't like the terms, or whatever, don't use the feature. Nobody's making you.
— Tammy
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I don't believe any one has indicated that they felt forced to use feature they don't like.
We are all expressing our likes, dislikes and wish list of features. What's wrong with that? Amazon asks for feedback. Some of us write them directly, some express them on various boards and we should be able to do that. I do believe Amazon employees on behalf of the company or on their own visit MR from time to time (I had to delete part of the Kindle Visual Guide wiki by Amazon's request). If someone from Amazon should happen by, they will have a wide variety of feedback in one thread.
