[LINK] LendInk site

[Kim Holburn]

On 2012/Aug/13, at 12:43 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> The Age IT section has a story about LendInk being taken offline due 
> to copyright complaints. Lendink is supposed to be a way for readers 
> to connect and share books legally.
> http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/innovation/blogs/smoke--mirrors/lendink-fiasco-keeps-rights-management-issue-burning-20120810-23z01.html
> 
> I went to check it out. Here's the current message:
> 
> http://lendink.com/
> Currently offline
> Not due to DMCA complaints.
> 
> Looks like the publicity has perhaps increased demand??

No threats took it offline.

http://goodereader.com/blog/commentary/how-uninformed-digital-authors-destroyed-lendink/

> Dale Porter, the owner of Lendink, stepped forward to fend off some of the negative backlash of the piracy claims. He was asked by authors that since his website was down, he must have been a pirate. Dale retorted “Really, this is proof that we were pirating ebooks? The fact of the matter is that our host company was so overwhelmed with hate mail and threats of lawsuits that they felt they had no choice but to suspend the site. These hateful people did nothing but harass and threaten LendInk and our host company to the point that it just didn’t make sense to keep the site online. For those of you on this site that are patting yourself on the back for bringing Lendink down, shame on you. I only hope at this point that you see the same results with your books and your writing career.” For everyone that thinks that websites like Lendingbook and LendInk make tons of money he said “Lendink is a California based company and as such, was cut off from earning money from sales when Amazon and the State of California disagreed over the collection of State Sales Tax. Amazon cut off all of their California affiliates from earning money via their affiliate program. It was not just Lendink. This only prevented us from earning money via Amazon. It did not however stop use from matching people for book lending.”




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