rude and sarcastic is pretty much par for the course in regards to Bezos but Sophie's choice is a kinda funny shot. Hey, it isn't his job to be fair and partial. He is the Amazon guy.
Industry rumor has it that Barnes and Noble originally wanted a much more robust LendMe program - as in the user may lend this book out over and over but only one reader at a time will have the book. Publishers balked like no tomorrow and Barnes and Noble had to keep scaling back to get any agreement.
As it stands right now current estimate is about "half" the Barnes and Noble digital titles are lendable but there is no news on which half..... are these ancient backlists with little interest anyway or new releases? It is very hard to get answers and from what I hear Barnes and Noble is still pushing hard with the various Publishers to get them to participate.