New Questions, Concerns About Kindle’s Lending Library -- What About Authors?

A day after Amazon’s announcement that it will begin lending e-books free to Kindle-owning Prime members, and following the discovery that some publishers are being included in the program without their consent, publishers, agents and authors are beginning to wrap their minds around the new model.

Here are some of the issues the different parties are concerned about.

• How do authors get paid?
• Why don’t authors get to decide whether their books will be included?
• Which books are included, anyway?