It's kinda funny that in the 90's, "web masters" wanted search engine crawlers to ask for permission to crawl their site. Right now, there's no economic advant

It's kinda funny that in the 90's, "web masters" wanted search engine crawlers to ask for permission to crawl their site. Right now, there's no economic advantage to sharing your data--especially in this case where Amazon is trying to protect its investment in the Kindle and its impending "App Store" for books. Perhaps when we have a way for published data to benefit the publisher, we won't have stuff like this going on.