So I read this article:

Piracy witch hunt downs legit e-book lending Web site

On August 1, a vitriolic, hysterical mob of authors mistook e-book lending Web site Lendink for a piracy clearinghouse, rallying a terribly mistaken call to action.

The site remains offline today as details emerge revealing just how wrong these authors were — and how unrepentant some of them still are.

…aside: the site is back now, albeit Google marks it as “This site may be compromised” for some reason.

Lendink was a hobby site put together by disabled army vet Dale Porter, who created a person-to-person e-mail request system where e-book fans could find out about lend-enabled books on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and contact each other to arrange loans on titles they wanted to read.
Borrowing lend-enabled Kindle and Nook e-books is perfectly legitimate, as spelled out on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble Web sites; book e-tailers have a series of permissions in place where publishers can allow a 14-day lend of a purchased book between customers. (Amazon notes that “not all books are lendable — it is up to the publisher or rights holder to determine which titles are eligible for lending.”)

…and, well, read the posting to see how the train wreck played out.

Notably I went back through electagraham‘s timeline but cannot find the August 8th tweets that are referenced in the article, so I suppose that she’s deleted the ones like this:

These are the sabots of old thinking being thrown into the new technology; I only hope that this doesn’t go on for as long as it took the Industrial Revolution to take hold.

Tip: If you write e-books, don’t do this. Self-publish and research exactly what terms apply to you.