I feel two ways about this new kerfluffle:
1 - I am PISSED at AMAZON for inserting itself into my library lending activites. I feel my personal privacy was/is being invaded. I'm surprised that no one cares that Amazon was requiring all kindle library loans to go through their servers. And that if you checked out a kindle library book...Amazon would email you to buy that book. WTF. That should be a PRIVATE activity taking place between me and my city library. NOT me, my city library and Amazon trying to stick it's greedy fingers in my pocketbook. That's insane and probably the (first) reason why Penguin pulled their books. Publishers don't want Amazon to have that kind of data access. And neither do I!
2 - I really wish that Penguin had not pulled their ebooks from libraries. I feel that libraries are almost sacred and pulling books ridiculous.
What's to do? Keep feeding the monster?
Cut off it's food supply so that it slowly dies a natural death or at least shrinks into a smaller monster?
