Borrowers» email addresses are provided to lenders for no other purpose than to facilitate
an ebook loan through Amazon's Kindle book lending feature.
Not exact matches
According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries
loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click
through their websites.
Their participation helps towards the stripping of copyrighted status, but also allows the library to
loan the
ebook to their patrons
through Unglue.it's lending platform.
For indie authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively
through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be
loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to pay authors as
ebooks are borrowed.
This rule is no doubt employed to help recoup sales revenues Amazon loses
through lending, especially since there does not appear to be a limit as to the number of times an
eBook can be
loaned.
Keep in mind, if you getting an
ebook through your library via overdrive or a similar program, that library paid around $ 80 for it, and in some cases thats only for «X» amount of days or
loans
You can
loan (some) Kindle
eBooks: While I am a heavy reader of
eBooks that I purchase
through the Amazon Kindle store, I don't like being prevented from
loaning a Kindle encrypted - version book to a friend the way I would a physical book.
Kindle Unlimited is, in fact, hardly different from the public library
ebook loan system which is available for free
through installing the OverDrive app.