Amazon's Kindle lending library is contract breach, say US authors
Authors Guild says online retailer is using 'brute economic power' to push books into scheme without proper permissions
American authors are up in arms about Amazon's new Kindle lending library, accusing the online retailer of "boldly breaching its contracts" with publishers as it exercises its "brute economic power".
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011
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