Thread: Lendle: Amazon has revoked Lendle's API access
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Old 03-23-2011, 05:50 PM   #75
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Interesting sidelight to the whole lending thing:
http://www.slate.com/id/2289012

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By my count, just three of the top 10 books in Amazon's Kindle store (as of Tuesday morning) are lendable. Things get worse when you move to the more expensive books on the New York Times bestseller list. Not a single one of the top 10 books on the Times' hardcover fiction list is lendable, and just one of the top 10 books on the nonfiction list can be loaned out—Pope Bendedict's biography of Jesus (and perhaps that's only because he was known to have strong feelings about charity).

Besides limited selection, being able to lend out a book just once total in its lifetime seems to be the big limiting factor for these sites.
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