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Amazon To Offer Kindle ebooks Via Public Libraries

Posted by samzenpus on from the adapt-or-die dept.

destinyland writes "Amazon announced this morning that they're making Kindle ebooks available for free in America through 11,000 local public libraries. 'We're thrilled that Amazon is offering such a new approach to library ebook...' said one Seattle librarian, and one Kindle blog listed out the top advantages to having them available in libraries."

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  1. Congratulations Amazon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Congratulations Amazon! You now offer a service that ALL OF THE OTHER ereader sellers have been able to take advantage of for years! B&N, Sony, Kobo, Bookeen, etc...

  2. Re:What about 1984? by Inner_Child · · Score: 4, Informative

    Considering it's just Overdrive, which has been around for a while now, yes, libraries have set lending periods. Mine is a choice of 7, 14, or 21 days. Yes, they do automatically get "deleted" (actually they just stop working, at least for ePub titles), but you can re-borrow them if you'd like. The bigger issue is with publishers imposing artificial scarcity on digital titles, forcing libraries to purchase a new copy after it's been borrowed a certain number of times (in order to maintain the same revenue stream they have with dead-tree books, which actually degrade).

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  3. Re:Is there a list of the libraries? by Inner_Child · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've found that the classic search is much better: http://search.overdrive.com/classic/

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