Sentences with phrase «now lend a book»

Basically, anyone with a Kindle can now lend a book to anyone else.

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AUSTRALIAN creators and publishers whose books are held in educational lending libraries are now eligible to receive payments through the Educational Lending Right (ELR) program.

It is called «The Lie» and it is now available on Amazon Prime as a free book for lending.

Back in London, I'm now ploughing my way through What to Expect When You're Expecting, having previously only digested it in app form (my friend Kirsten — who has a beautiful eight month old girl — very kindly lent me lots of pregnancy and baby books).

i lent my copy of the book to a friend and now i am trying to piece together how to do a phd - style ketogenic diet or «fast» both shorter and longer term.

These lending and reading rooms have actually been resourceful for many years now in order to avoid becoming as extinct as some of the animals in their reference books.

«We're now lending 600 ebooks a day, which works out to more than 133,000 books in 2012.

Penguin Group, which announced last year that any books published after November 14 would not be available for ebook lending from libraries — and initially had said those ebooks would not be available for Kindle, but has since backed down from that statement — has now decided to pull its audiobook downloads from library catalogs for books published on or after that same date.

With the abundance of self - publishing opportunities available to authors now, and even opportunities like library distribution thanks to this morning's announcement that Smashwords and OverDrive are pairing up on ebook lending, the real stand out will be in the ways that companies can offer book promotion to their clients.

You can now lend Kindle books to each other.

We now have books on OverDrive, a library lending program.

That means e-books can now emulate the social exchange of printed books, while avoiding the big pitfall of book - lending: the risk that you won't get your book back.

This week, OverDrive is meeting with major international and domestic publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair — arguably the largest publishing industry event of its kind — to unveil its «Want It Now» (WIN) catalog for ebook - lending.

Kindle library lending was the biggest story of the year and people can now borrow library books and have them delivered to their Kindle e-Reader or Tablet.

The «Book Overview» section has been enhanced which now provides for a quick and easy access to contents and bookmarks while a new addition here is the «Lend to a friend» feature that will let you send an email to a about a book that you may have found interestBook Overview» section has been enhanced which now provides for a quick and easy access to contents and bookmarks while a new addition here is the «Lend to a friend» feature that will let you send an email to a about a book that you may have found interestbook that you may have found interesting.

Users now have the ability to borrow, lend and now buy books!

The book will show up in your friend's «Lend Me» section which now can be seen occupying the top left corner.

KDP Select has now proven that a large number of readers go on to make book purchases after borrowing a book by the same author, something that makes back list publication and lending availability an even more appealing option.

Some users might opt for Amazon simply to have the security of borrowing or lending a book a year or 10 from now.

I saw this morning that Amazon now has over 5,000 Kindle books in a lending library free to Prime members.

But the competition isn't standing still: Amazon is copying some of the popular Nook features such as book lending, and although Amazon is a giant that one should not under - estimate, the Nook Color is the cooler book reader, for now.

Kindle 3 is a very impressive eReader but Amazon has shown a remarkable tendency to be slow — It didn't add PDF support until Nook arrived, it's only now adding support for lending, and it's taken 3 years to add Kindle book gifting.

Now, both Kindle and Nook have a lending feature that's a mockery of what lending means to books.

Quite a few Kindle owners are now complaining — that the feature is just as restricted as on the Nook, that this isn't really lending, that physical books can be lent unlimited times.

The good news is that this is really a mature market now (both Amazon and B&N offer «over one million» titles in their libraries) and between library lending, friend - to - friend lending, public domain books, and the sheer inevitability of e-books-as-the-future, you'll be well served by a number of products on the market — you'll just probably be best served by Amazon.

Now there's this article pointing out how libraries are now concerned that their ability to lend physical books is in jeoparNow there's this article pointing out how libraries are now concerned that their ability to lend physical books is in jeoparnow concerned that their ability to lend physical books is in jeopardy.

They now want a monopsony as well — they have spent the last few years offering greater and greater incentives for self - published authors to pull their titles from all other vendors, while also making it easier for them to see other authors as competitors rather than colleagues, with things like their zero - sum KDP Select book - lending promotions.

The book lending library from Amazon that has become popular in the U.S. will now be available to readers in the U.K. Launching, November 1, Amazon has several U.K. -LSB-...].

I receive emails every day from readers who tried one of my books through the lending library, and now have read all of my backlist.»

Not sure what charm and magic B&N used to get this feature included but now Publishers have undermined one of the big advantages of ebooks — They've added back book lending.

Not all titles are available for lending, however, due to rights issues, so each Kindle book product page will now tell you whether the service is enabled or not.

From the consumer perspective, it looks like Amazon only added book lending so that it could have better feature parity with the competition (* cough * Nook), and now it's taking early steps to ensure that the activity remains a niche interest instead of a major Kindle feature.

And in fact, part of the conversation right now is the fact that in some cases, you borrow that book and after, for instance, two or three weeks, whatever the lending period is, it simply disappears from your device.

The news comes just days after Amazon announced that authors making their books available through the Kindle lending service will now get paid on a sliding scale depending on how much of a borrowed ebook the reader actually gets through.

I've come to the conclusion that because the library market is so small that publishers believe, at least right now, that limits that would reduce library participation in digital book lending is a) not a negative and b) if negative, one that can be made up with just a few purchases by readers.

Kindle owners will now be able to lend their books out to other Kindle owners for a two - week period.

I must admit I was pissed off when learning that Amazon has changed its algorithms to favor the people in Kindle Unlimited: now each book lended in KU, even if it has not been read, counts as a sale!

The Amazon lending library has now grown to over 145,000 books that can be borrowed for free as frequently as once a month, with no due dates.

Now that the Kindle is in the hands of mainstream consumers, there is a much bigger group to share books with via the Kindle lending program.

In its first six months of operation, Kindle Unlimited has lent as many books as the New York Public Library lends in a year and now looks set to pay out well over $ 100 million on borrows to self - published authors this year.

The students were grateful for both the honor and for the book, Jaylen said he could return the copy of Unbowed his teacher lent him as now he has his own copy.

For example, Google offers over a million free books in the popular, open Epub format, which many public libraries now use for lending books.