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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Amazon has just opened up its Amazon Prime Lending Program to indie authors...providing they go exclusive with Amazon for at least 90 days.
Amazon Prime members will be able to "borrow" the book for an unlimited amount of time, but only one book at a time.
In return, the authors split a pool of money ($500,000 in December 2012) for every qualified "borrow" of their book.
Opinions, from both the reader and author viewpoints?
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If I wanted your book and it was only available via Amazon, I would tell everyone everywhere I could not to have anything to do with your books. Going exclusive with Amazon means you don't care about the non-Amazon customers who may want to read your work. And if you don't care about me, I won't care about you and I'll do everything I can to let others know not to care about you/