Kindle Library Lending debuted last year, and has shown modest growth, but has a ways to go before it really takes off. The number of libraries that offer the service has grown tremendously, but the selection of books offered has not. My local library offers access to e-books for the Kindle, Nook, and other electronic [...]
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Amazon Brings Harry Potter to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Posted by on May 11th, 2012
After years of waiting and fan requests, J.K. Rowling has finally got her Pottermore site running well and offering eBook versions the Harry Potter series to owners of Kindles, Nooks, and more. She accomplished this in such a way that even Amazon, the bane of publishers and booksellers everywhere if you believe the news, was [...]
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No Comments »Kindle Owner’s Lending Library Adds More Titles
Posted by on March 5th, 2012
The Kindle Owner’s Lending Library is a service for Amazon Prime members that lets you download a book a month for free. There is no due date for the book once you check it out. For $ 79 a year, you can get free two day shipping, access to unlimited movie streaming, and the ability [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Adds, Kindle, Lending, Library, more, Owner’s, Titles No Comments »OverDrive Gets a Huge Membership Boost after Launching Kindle Library Lending
Posted by on January 25th, 2012
The Kindle Library Lending service launched in the fall of 2011 started with 11.000 libraries. The number has grown to about 15,000 libraries and counting in the US, and 18,000 worldwide. This new service offered via a partnership between Amazon and OverDrive has been very instrumental in facilitating this big jump in membership. more Kindle [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: after, Boost, Gets, Huge, Kindle, Launching, Lending, Library, Membership, OverDrive No Comments »A First Hand Look at How Kindle Library Lending Works
Posted by on January 1st, 2012
There have been several posts about the Amazon Kindle Library Lending program that was launched earlier this fall on here, but there hasn’t really been a good explanation of how the whole thing works. With that in mind, I found a good step by step guide for searching for and downloading Kindle books from your [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: First, Hand, Kindle, Lending, Library, Look, Works No Comments »What Impact will Kindle Library Lending Have on E-book Sales?
Posted by on December 4th, 2011
If you follow the e-book publisher news, you might have seen some mention of the major publisher Penguin Group’s decision to take away, then restore their titles to OverDrive. OverDrive is used by many libraries to deliver e-books to their patrons. States including North Carolina have a digital library that is run through OverDrive, and [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: eBook, Impact, Kindle, Lending, Library, Sales No Comments »Penguin, Overdrive, and Amazon: Kindle Library Lending Gets Complicated
Posted by on November 30th, 2011
Kindle owners found themselves targeted recently in a fairly unpleasant way. Penguin USA, one of the largest publishers in the world, decided that it would be a smart business move to pull their entire collection of publications from libraries across the country for Kindle owners. Everybody else, including owners of competing eReaders like the Barnes [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Complicated, Gets, Kindle, Lending, Library, OverDrive, Penguin No Comments »Amazon Prime Kindle Owners’ Lending Library: How, What, and Why
Posted by on November 14th, 2011
Assuming you have both a Kindle and an active Amazon Prime membership, you now get to make use of Amazon’s latest eBook related service, the Amazon Prime Kindle Owners’ Lending Library! Aside from having a rather unwieldy name attached to it, this will be a good thing for those who get to take advantage of [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Kindle, Lending, Library, Owners’, Prime No Comments »Amazon Kindle Lending Library Launched For Kindle Owners Only
Posted by on November 12th, 2011
After some speculation about the possibility a while back, it appears that Amazon has opened up what we can only hope is the earliest stage of its Kindle eBook Lending Library to the public. It will provide customers with a free book loan from time to time, without due date. Essentially a Netflix for Kindle [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Kindle, Launched, Lending, Library, Only, Owners No Comments »Amazon Launches its own Kindle Lending Library
Posted by on November 5th, 2011
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) just announced a new service for Amazon Prime members called Kindle Owners Lending Library. It is a Netflix for books of sorts. As a voracious reader, I am really excited to have all of these book lending opportunities at my fingertips: Kindle Library Lending, lending through friends and peers, an the new [...]
