I am a bit annoyed that borrowing and
lending books among my friends is difficult, as is reading PDF files.
Not exact matches
If you're in the KDP Select program and are enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited
lending program (it's automatic for KDP Select
books — you have to opt out), you're paid according to how many pages are read total —
among all borrowers.
MR. FRANK SESNOMore than three - quarters of the nation's public libraries
lend books electronically, a fact not widely known
among the reading public.
Libraries don't have different rates of payment for different publishers (Amazon are apparently paying medium - sized publishers the full cost of the
book every time it's
lent out, and only making the small publishers and self - publishers compete
among themselves for scraps).
It's no Napster, but the Kindle
Lending Club probably has facilitated the
lending of more than 1,000
books among strangers.
OverDrive announced today that
among the hundreds of libraries across North America that have set annual records for
lending digital
books during 2015, 33 library systems exceeded one million digital
books circulated.
Reading also leads to enthusiastic recommendation, which, in turn, can lead to
book acquisition, which can occur through many different avenues, e.g. purchase (new and used), library
lending, or legal sharing
among friends.
For example, influences and objects include artist Sol LeWitt's three - dimensional minimalist structures from the 1960s; shea butter (a popular hair and skin product from Africa); Russian rugs; the Moscow Botanical Gardens;
books by W.E.B Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Frantz Fanon (
among other authors); as well as films such as Rocky IV, Woody Allen's Manhattan, Fellini's 8 1/2 and Oscar Micheaux's 1920's silent film Within Our Gates, which also
lends the commission its title.