Kindle Lets You Become A Lending Library


Update Nov 1: Amazon Kindle book lending is now up and running in th US.

At the momnt if you buy a book from Amazon on your Kindle reader, it's yours and yours alone. If you want to let some else read your book, you have to hand over your Kindle as well.

That's about to change. Amazon says it will soon allow some books to be lent to other Kindle owners. You'll be able to lend out a book for two weeks.

There are some (important) restrictions: you won't be able to access your book while it's on loan and .... and this is a big AND...it'll be up to the publishers to decide which books can be lent out.

Word has it that the books that will allow lending will be slightly more expensive than books with a restriction on lending.

And the reason this post is here:  come on Apple, let's have the same lending scheme in iBooks.

Comments

Kindle man said…
I have a question relating to access to the Net via Kindle. I have an original version of the Kindle. On a recent holiday I was able to access popular sites on the Net but only with great difficulty and limited success. The sites were crude and unsophisticated. My partner has the new version of Kindle; she had much greater success. The sites she reached were much more richer. The main difference I could see between the two Kindles focussed on the switch between "basic mode" and "advanced mode" when accessing sites; the old Kindle seemed, for most of the time, to be in "basic"; and only occasionally in "advanced". I could not see how to ensure that the old Kindle could operate all the time in "advanced mode". I would appreciate any advice.
31 October 2010 at 11:32
Anonymous said…
Make sure you have the latest Kindle software on your machine. You can get it from here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200324680
In the Kindle browser settings there should be a button to "change to advanced mode".
Hope this helps.
31 October 2010 at 13:07
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