Here’s the reaction of the Authors’ Guild to Amazon’s new lending program on Amazon Prime: : http://tiny.cc/ekuoa . Essentially, the Authors’ Guild claims that Amazon is going over the heads of the big commercial publishers in lending their books, and that it going to hurt big publisher and big author profits. Amazon is a War Lord, but the Authors’ Guild, to which I have belonged for many years, is so fixated on its big money earning authors that it turns away writers who don’t get sizable advances or who publish with very small presses. And as for the Big Six Publishers? Let’s just call them Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Eoraptor, Archaeopteryx, Brontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex.