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Home > News > Lend Your Kindle eBooks – Once.

Lend Your Kindle eBooks – Once.

December 31, 2010 by Gord McLeod

When Amazon announced the upcoming ability to lend books to other Kindle users “later this year” they really weren’t kidding. Now, one day before New Year’s Eve, Amazon has made this ability available to anyone who owns Kindle eBooks.

I say anyone who owns the eBooks because you don’t actually need a Kindle device to loan or receive a book. The Kindle reader software is available on many other platforms, and those platforms can take advantage just as well as a Kindle can.

The terms of lending are pretty strict right now; you can lend a given book only once, and only for 14 days, and only if the publisher has agreed to those terms for that book. That doesn’t surprise me all that much though. The eBook market itself is still relatively young, so they’ll want to test the waters first with a restricted test case. Down the road, I wouldn’t be surprised to see loaning terms relax quite a bit once publishers are certain it won’t kill the market.

(via Engadget)

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Amazon, ebooks, Kindle

About Gord McLeod

I'm a writer and game designer with a background covering everything from IT work to programming to the graphic arts. I'm intensely interested in everything game, gadget and science related.
Find me at Fiction Improbable, my fiction writing website, at @gordmcleod on Twitter, and at my Google+ Profile too.

Comments

  1. PJay says

    December 31, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    I understand that they want to be cautious. But when they think about it in real world terms. How often are you restricted on how long or which books you can lend to a friend. You’re not. I think when their electronic functionality matches real world functionality, then I’ll consider getting a reader.

    • Gord McLeod says

      December 31, 2010 at 1:13 pm

      I can’t count the number of times I’ve lent books out over the years only to realize much later that I never got them back again, so this is one area where I’m really not interested in 1:1 feature matching! 🙂

  2. Ben Cooke says

    December 31, 2010 at 11:57 am

    Barnes and Noble has been doing this for a while now via its Nook product line and other ebook readers. The restrictions there are basically exactly the same, so I’d guess that either Amazon used the B&N terms as a template or that these terms came from one or more of the publishers and are being applied to all eBook distribution platforms that want to do lending right now.

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