Kindle Library Up and Running

Thursday, 22 September, 2011

Well the Kindle library lending scheme is now up and running in the US. Based upon a 2 week lending period… bear in mind this means Kindle the “brand” rather than Kindle the “device”. So if you want to borrow a book (and you need to be a library member) you can sync it to any Kindle application, be that iPhone, Android, Windows or Chrome.

Its not a panacea, but it will address those people who don’t want to buy Kindle books because they can borrow them. Quite how this would work for student textbooks I’m not sure, although discussions with academic publishers are meant to be ongoing….

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