[mdc]

I don't think too many of the authors actually held the position you describe. You describe a situation where authors understood LendInk and didn't like the way it changed lending, but if you read the complaints from authors that accused LendInk of piracy, it's pretty clear the authors didn't understand what LendInk was doing and just reacted from a position of ignorance rather than informing themselves.

[res0nat0r]

There is one author who is complaining on the LendInk FB page who seemed a bit clued in. She was objecting to the fact that the site allowed you to lend books to anyone and not just your friends and family like defined on the Kindle Lending page on Amazon.

She didn't like it because if Amazon allowed a lending service to match up anyone who wanted to lend on the Amazon site then she expects she should be getting paid royalty rates like libraries have to pay to lend to anyone.