The Economist reports on Amazon's brief withdrawal of API access to Lendle: "The brief outage demonstrates a fundamental truth about the internet: if you don't own the data you need to run your business, you're dependent on the policies—and whims—of the parties that do. Jeff Croft, Lendle's founder, says he will not make that mistake again."

Publisher Adam Engst is interviewed on eReaderJoy about the iPad and other eReaders. Feb 2011.

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