Here's an overview: The B&N LendMe feature allows a person to
loan a book once to one person.
Not exact matches
Publishers can't really stop you from
loaning out physical
books since they have no way to control it
once you take it home.
Libraries can only
loan a
book out for a year, before they are forced to buy the digital
book once more.
Sure, I can
loan it out for a couple weeks but I think that's limited to
once per
book.
Of course, assuming it's returned, you can
loan it out more than
once, but look at the most popular print
book you own and tell me how many times you've
loaned it out over the years.
The
loan period is fixed at two weeks, during which the purchaser can't read the
book;
once the
loan's over, it automatically returns.
Only select
books have this functionality and a
book can only be
loaned out
once in its lifetime.
eBooks for the most part can't be
loaned out, although B&N and Amazon have select titles you can
loan out
once during the lifetime of the
book and only for two weeks.
The entire lending system was developed so that
once a
book was
loaned out
once, it can never be lent out again.
You can only
loan a
book you've bought on Kindle
once, for instance, and only for 14 days.
A select number of «eligible» Kindle
books can be
loaned once, for a 14 day period, to anyone using Kindle software on any device.
Many
books can be
loaned to the same person, but a
book can only be lent out
once.
Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern
books because amazon has been in the e-
book market longer than anyone other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-
books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-
books for the kindle from other stores or free
book sites.The bought
books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the
books.You can also lend a
book to a friend
once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow
books and read without buying.You can also read e-
books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded
books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The
books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).
Certain ebooks you purchase are flagged «Lending Enabled» by the publisher or author, and can be
loaned out
once during the
book's lifetime.
Kindle Lending allows publishers and authors opt into a program that allows
book buyers to
loan a
book out to a friend, over the period of two weeks and only
once in the lifetime of the
book.
First, «Each
book can be lent
once for a
loan period of 14 - days and the lender can not read the
book during the
loan period,» Amazon explains.
Once you send a
book to a friend, they will have 14 days to read it before the
loan cuts off, but they don't need to own a Kindle itself.
A
book can only be
loaned once, ever.
With physical
books, access to
books can be impeded by three barriers: archiving (physical
books are expensive to preserve); indexing / search (even where catalogues are available online, searching for relevant
books on a given topic can be difficult, and many
books are not yet indexed); and obtaining
books (
once you find a
book you think you want, you may need to buy it, borrow it or, if you have access to a library with the right relationships, attempt to order it via interlibrary
loan).
Under Amazon's and Barnes & Noble's sharing model, you're allowed to
loan out a
book just
once, for two weeks, and while it's
loaned out, you don't have access to it.
I go to my overdrive app, go to Clevenet digital library, peruse their awesome collection,
once I've chosen a
book, I tap borrow, tap on go to
loans, go to my bookshelf, tap on title so that download will begin, and listen.
Online giant retailer Amazon has finally listened to its customers and has announced «Eligible Kindle
books can be
loaned once for a period of 14 days.»
The first sentence of a support article posted on Amazon's support site provides the meat and potatoes of today's big announcement: «Eligible Kindle
books can be
loaned once for a period of 14 days.
Once a
loan goes into default for long enough, lenders no longer carry it on their
books as a performing asset.
Once again, while banks are sufficiently capitalized to retain
loans on their
books, smaller lenders are not and thus would need to increase mortgage lending rates to offset additional risk, thus increasing costs to consumers.
Once you find the right coverage at the right cost, you can focus on reducing other school expenses, like tuition,
books, and, yes, even your student
loans.