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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I knew publishers would not want to allow their eBooks to be borrowed from Amazon. And now they've said so and Amazon is still planning to go ahead with this. Well, in this case, Amazon is wrong and should get sued big time for this.
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It's been
suggested that Amazon's contract with publishers probably allows them to lend books and pay publishers the same as if they'd sold the book. If that's the case, then Amazon haven't done anything wrong. Of course, no-one really knows for sure whether or not that is the case, unless they've read the relevant contracts.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The problem is books where the publishers has signed up with Amazon for a fixed fee for including their catalogue in the scheme. Authors haven't given their publishers the authority to enter into such a scheme.
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I agree, but again, it depends on what the contract says. If the contract that the author has with the publisher allows the publisher to sign books up to this kind of deal, then the publisher hasn't done anything wrong. If the contract doesn't say that, then the authors should be complaining to their publishers. It may be that the contracts do allow this, but many authors don't realise it.
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Originally Posted by Soldim
From reading the article and the post on the Authors Guild (that's rather 1880s to me  ) blog it seems they do have an issue with Amazon, not with the respective publishers. |
Apparently publishers are concerned that people will stop paying for ebooks. From the article:
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publishers are concerned about consumer expectations of pricing. If a consumer can get e-books seemingly for free through the Kindle Lending Library, they may decide to stop paying for e-books, something that would be devastating to publishers who are trying to make the transition from print to e-books.
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