Amazon, Lendle and the Danger of Using Open APIs

Ebook-lending service Lendle, whose access to the Amazon API was just cut off, has become the latest poster child for a simple maxim: Building your service on top of someone else's API -- no matter how "open" it is -- can be a very dangerous road.

By JOHN MARKOFF 22 Mar, 2011

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