Thread: Lendle: Amazon has revoked Lendle's API access
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Old 03-22-2011, 10:37 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Which is all Amazon did to Lendle. Amazon didn't shut Lendle down... Lendle shut Lendle down -- because they foolishly built their infrastructure on a rug (a non-essential rug, I might add) that Amazon was free to pull out from under them any time they wanted to.

The Product Advertising API was never necessary for what Lendle wanted to do. They just made the mistake of putting too much emphasis on bells, whistles and shiny-flashy baubles. B&N has no API and as such, lending networks based on their lending feature will never be affected in the same manner.
Actually, it seems as if they went down it's because their software built a critical dependency on the bells & whistles. If the feature had been more isolated, they'd be back up in a jiff.
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