Obviously libraries have been
lending out physical books for hundreds of years but the digital frontier is evolving dramatically and many online retailers are struggling to adapt.
Due to the success of the digital strategy, Amazon has just implemented a new program to
lend out physical textbooks as well.
You can even get e-books totally free by «borrowing» them from the same library that
lends out physical books.
Not exact matches
Whereas Driver has the kind of face and
physical presence that
lends itself to his character's ambiguity, Ridley isn't nearly as compelling this time
out, perhaps because she spends most of the time being tutored by Luke.
The Internet Archive's Open Library, for example, purchases
physical books, digitizes them, and
lends them
out on a one - to - one basis.
The former might lose sales because libraries can
lend ebooks more efficiently (they need fewer websites than
physical libraries) and they don't wear
out or get lost.
They also work
out well for people like me who do not have easy access to huge
physical lending libraries and / or read a large number of books a month.
Now there's this article pointing
out how libraries are now concerned that their ability to
lend physical books is in jeopardy.
Libraries pay for the
physical copy they're
lending out.
When I share a book with another Kindle user I shouldn't be able to read it myself (as with a
physical book), but when they return it I should be able to
lend it
out to other friends with Kindle devices.