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I'm glad to see so many people put off by the exclusivity they demand. I decided to experiment with it so that people could borrow our books (I'm a publisher) in the US from the lending library. But I'm not really happy with it. They really shouldn't demand exclusivity and it's not something we'll be able to do for long because we need to sell our books from a variety of websites and for other types of ereader. It's really quite outrageous that they demand this. There are other clauses too. The clauses saying the commission can be only 35% for us if the ebook is sold in certain countries - we've already fallen foul of that because we do have a following in those countries. And it goes on to say they can reduce the commission even more if they see our book priced lower anywhere else. No bookshop asks for this. Too much control - we do need to fight against it even though we still need Amazon to some extent.
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