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Well, to put it a little more logically, I think us Sony (and other epub reader) people are ticked at Amazon for getting into this game so late. They COULD have started with library books, and AZW would most likely have become the dominant format. And then our readers would have been developed to read that format. But instead, they waited until there was some serious competition, meaning investment by both readers and libraries, in the epub format, and THEN decide to allow library lending. Thus re-igniting the format war.
Mostly, we're miffed that we bought our readers specifically because they allow us to check out library books, and now Kindle is going to make it more difficult for us by either spreading the library budgets out to buy both formats, or leaving us in the dust with our epub readers.
Gotta hand it to them, it's a brilliant business strategy, as are all of their strategies. Not allowing library books was a great decision at the time, and now that it's costing them some sales, they change their policy.
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