Thread: Authors Guild: Claims Kindle Lending Library is a breach of contract
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Old 11-17-2011, 08:53 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by SleepyBob View Post
But Amazon is paying them the wholesale rate for those books. If a seller charges $6.99 per book purchased, and that is what they get paid, how can they complain?
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Originally Posted by howyoudoin View Post
Haha, yeah. Like the article points out, it's no different to how a library functions, except that they'll actually get paid for each 'withdrawal' here. If anything traditional libraries 'devalue' books more.
Because they made a point of saying that they would pay a wholesale rate for the book. If they were paying the same retail rate they would pay for a normal sale of the $6.99 book, why wouldn't they have said so?
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