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Amazon announced earlier this year that there would be lending available for some Kindle ebooks. The announcement came out yesterday that the feature is now active. Message from the Amazon Kindle Team: Today, we’re pleased to launch Kindle Book Lending, a new feature that lets you loan Kindle books to anyone you choose. The borrower does not need to own a Kindle. Kindle books can be read on Kindle or using our free Kindle reading applications for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices. Each eligible book can be lent once for a period of 14 days. Not all e-books are lendable – the publisher or rights holder determines which titles are enabled for lending. For more information on how to loan Kindle books, please visit www.amazon.com/kindle-lending. (Source: LISNews – Librarian And Information Science News)

On time too — year end. This started as a preview of theA new Kindle-book lending feature as described by Amazon. I tweeted this development, at about 3:45 PM PST after reading about it on the forums where it was already a busy message thread. That main Kindle Team Forum Announcement is at theA Amazon Kindle Community forums, and I’m adding a bit more in this update with modifications to the earlier afternoon report . REMINDER: If your web browser (especially Firefox) drops you onto the Amazon Kindle Forum’s list of topics instead of bringing you directly to a forum thread, click onA Refresh orA Reload to get the message thread itself — or click again on the link here. A I don’t know why a ‘retry’ is often needed with the forums, but it is, in my case at least. Here’s the very brief announcement for the blog record: ‘ A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Initial post: Dec. 30, 2010 9:16 AM PST The Amazon Kindle team says: (AMAZON OFFICIAL) Today, we’re pleased to launch Kindle Book Lending, a new feature that lets you loan Kindle books to anyone you choose. A The borrower does not need to own a Kindle. A Kindle books can be read on Kindle or using ourA free Kindle reading applications for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices. A Each eligible book can be lent once for a period of 14 days. A Not all e-books are lendable -A the publisher or rights holder determines which titles are enabled for lending. A For more information on how to loan Kindle books, please visitA www.amazon.com/kindle-lending. ‘ As it is, there is quite a bit of good detail, with illustrations, at theA main Kindle-book lending page. Kindle-edition subscribers: Do use the computer instead to seeA that very helpful, detailed Amazon how-to-page for loaning or borrowing Kindle books. Type inA http://amzn. …

Ebook marketing still needs a lot of work Google ebookstore round-up By Gary Price TeleRead traffic doubles on Christmas day a a lot of ereaders as presents? Could computer games be the journalism of the future? by Chris Meadows R. Scott Raynovich on the top five online newspaper killers a and one from me Ebooks at year-end 2010 by Gary Price Helpful advice for new Kindle owners by Chris Walters First Google Books sales numbers are in for Munseyas For new and old Kindlers wanting to do more with their Kindles by Andrys Basten Question of the year: does Amazon have too much power? by Rich Adin The online future of Australian journalism, as seen by the industry itself by Jason Davis Why I am a library traitor and love the Kindle, by Sarah Houghton-Jan Holiday travel update: gadgets, gadgets, everywhere! by Joanna (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Amazon has turned on the Kindle book lending program, which allows book owner to alenda books to anyone with an email address and a Kindle (or a Kindle app for another device). The conditions are that the loan offer email must be accepted within seven days. Once accepted, the loan lasts for 14 days. Presently only Kindle users resident in the US can initiate the loan. Residents of other countries can accept a loan provided the book is available on the Kindle in their country of residence. Personally I have no problem with the lending feature as it stands but its birth is further evidence that Amazonas terms and conditions arenat worth the e-Ink theyare printed on. That is, theyare binding on a user but Amazon can change them on whim to suit itself. As Chris Walters writes, the day before lending was turned on Amazon aquietly updated the terms and conditions for publishers who use its Digital Text Platform to publish to the Kindle Store. It added section 5.2.2, which explains how the Lending Program works.a aAh,a says someone at Amazon, awe want to have lending for the Kindle but our terms and conditions donat allow it. What can we do?a He doesnat have to scratch his beard for long. He simply opens Amazonas terms and conditions document, bashes out a new section and hits aPublisha. An approach that cavalier is alarming if youare a user of the service because it means the ground can shift beneath your feet at any time. You could, for instance, find that all your titles are suddenly removed for a breach of the terms and conditions, some of which might not have been terms or conditions five minutes ago. Under the now dry but still malleable e-Ink of section 5.2.2, authors and publishers who are on the 35% royalty scheme have the option to opt out of lending (all books are opted in by default). Authors and publishers on the 70% royalty scheme have no choice: this is just another condition of being in the 70% scheme. …

+ How To Lend Kindle Books (via Amazon.com) + “Amazon now lets you “Lend your Kindle books to others” (by Martin Bryant, The Next Web) + “Amazon’s new lending feature is probably going to anger some publishers” (by Chris Walters, TeleRead) + “How Many Kindle Books Can Be Shared?” (by Jason Boog, GalleyCat) [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

When it comes to Kindle features, Amazon tends to follow the aphorism that itas easier to ask forgiveness than permission. This strategy doesnat always workasee the text-to-speech controversyabut it helps give Amazon the element of surprise in the marketplace. With that in mind, I have a feeling that some indie publishers are going to be up in arms about theA new lending feature that was enabled this morning, because of how Amazon rolled it out. Yesterday, Amazon quietly updated the terms and conditions for publishers who use its Digital Text Platform to publish to the Kindle Store. It added section 5.2.2, which explains how the Lending Program works. In particular, it explains the following: all DTP titles have lending enabled by default; titles using the 35% royalty option must participate in the lending program; titles using the 70% royalty option may be opted out; any opt-outs are not retroactive, so anyone who purchased the title while lending was available will continue to have access to the feature. This means if youare a publisher and you hate the idea of the lending program, you have to scramble today to go into your DTP account and manually disable the lending feature for each eligible title. While youare doing that, anyone who buys a copy will still be able to lend it in the future. Whatas not clear in this circumstance is what happens to all the customers who bought a copyA before lending went into effect, since theyare not explicitly described in section 5.2.2. Do they also get to keep the lending feature? If so, then essentially any anti-lending publisher just lost control over lending for all previous purchases; if not, then some customers may find this feature suddenly disappearing from select indie titles. Weall have to see what develops, and which group gets to angrily (and perhaps legitimately) denounce Amazonas policies. …

CNET has an article with this title. They discuss Jungle-search.com. After they discuss free ebooks they go on to say: … But what if you want to see more granular lists–say, separating the public domain titles from the modern freebies? (Publishers occasionally give away older books in a series to hook readers on newer ones, for example.) Or what if you want to see only books in a certain price range–only those that are 99 cents, or $2 to $3? That’s where Jungle-search.com comes in. The search engine is designed to scour Amazon for all sorts of deals across a variety of categories. And that includes Kindle titles, which can be filtered by price. As of today, there are almost 17,000 free Kindle titles (see links below). Nearly all of them are public domain titles, including many of the same you’ll find on Google Books. The remaining 246 free titles tend to be Kindle games, or those aforementioned freebie promotional titles. Currently, it looks like romance titles dominate the top of the list, but you’ll find plenty of thrillers, and even some “Star Wars” books in there, too. (These titles tend to turn over pretty quickly, so it’s worth checking every few weeks or so.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

CNet has an article looking at how to use Jungle-Search.com to find free or inexpensive Kindle e-books. The piece notes that Amazon has almost 17,000 free Kindle titles, though all but 246 of them (as of the articleas writing) were the same public domain titles that can be found on Google Books, Project Gutenberg, or elsewhere. There are also over 220,000 titles for 99 cents or less, and 125,000 between $1 and $5. This looks to be a very interesting search site even aside from e-books. One of the things that annoyed me about Amazon during my Christmas shopping was that there wasnat any way to search solely on price. Paired with Amazon Prime, this could be a very fun way of finding cheap trinkets to keep oneself amused. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

The Creekview High School Library (a/k/a The Unquiet Library) staff in Georgia have been documenting the library’s process of acquiring and lending Kindles and Kindle book editions on The Unquiet Librarian blog and in a series of YouTube videos, which… (Source: Law Librarian Blog)

I am on my way home from ten days in sunny Florida visiting my parents, and it was a gadget-rific Christmas. I saw my first Nook and Nook Colour, my first Kindle 3 (alas, out of stock, but I did play with a dummy model) and got stepdad’s iPad set up for him. More on that later—we had a few days alone thanks to a family emergency that had Mom flying home for a few days, so the iPad became our little All by Ourselves project—but I have some general comments on my gadget-rific holiday to tide you over in the meantime! 1) IT’S A GADGET WORLD The first thing that struck me about this holiday season was just how many gadgets there really are out there. I don’t travel much, so I was unprepared for the sheer proliferation of gadgetalia out there in the wild. I think every single person on my whole flight had a gadget of some kind, ranging from iPod Touches (most in the hands of children) to iPads, at least two Kindles besides my own, numerous fully loaded smartphones, a Sony and a few Chinese devices I could not identify. Two people in the seats beside me were even watching video on iPod Nanos! And I was not the only person who had more than one device with me, either! Of course, not all of these people were reading on them. But still, the potential is there. I spent an enjoyable afternoon playing iToys with my nephew, who is not much of a reader, and while we were evenly matched on the arcade stuff and perhaps spent more time than we had to playing with the talking cat, I have to admit that he held his own against me in even ‘intellectual’ games like Jeopardy and Family Feud. And I was happy to have something to do with him that bonded us a little. Small boys are a bit of a cipher for me, since his only interests seem to be hockey and baseball, so gadgetry is perhaps a welcome way into his world for people like me and his gadget-savvy parents. …

After playing with Quora for a couple of days, Iam starting to see the appeal of it. The format is clear and easy to use, but a bigger draw is that sometimes questions can be answered by people who actually have involvement with the issues. For example, one person asked, aWhy does Amazon brag incessantly about Kindle sales but refuse to disclose specifics?a And a response came from none other than Vinay Kruvila, whose by-line states he has worked for Amazon for 5 years and is currently its Software Development Manager. He writes: Amazon is an incredibly data-driven company. Every strategic decision at Amazon is backed by a wealth of data, and is associated with precise, measurable goals. Even every day tactical decisions are largely data-driven. If you follow prices of items on Amazon, you’ll see how the discount on a book can rise from 34% to 37%, from one day to the next. When Amazon considers entering new markets, the sales metrics competitors have released (perhaps, foolishly) are a key data-point. When you work at Amazon, you realize how important the numbers are. Releasing Kindle sales numbers would only feed into the hands of Amazon’s competitors; there’s a big difference in knowing that the Kindle is the best selling product ever on Amazon and knowing that Amazon sold X million Kindles in 2010. Amazon believes in taking credit for the impressive things we do in ways that are subtle and sophisticated, without providing data that will help current and potential competitors. While I still wish Amazon would be more forthcoming with its numbers, at least this is one of the best explanations Iave yet seen for why it is not. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

From the Librarian in Black Bless me, O Biblioblogosphere, for I have sinned. I have betrayed the trust of my librarian people by *gasp* loving my Kindle like I am told I would love a child if I had any interest in being a parent, which I donat. But I do have an interest in reading digital content on a sleek, affordable, and easy-to-use device. Thus the Kindle. Later in the piece there is some counter language: Now that weave covered the pros, hereas why I detest the Kindle as a librarian Full blog post at the Librarian in Black N7M9ZX (Source: LISNews – Librarian And Information Science News)

From the Librarian in Black Bless me, O Biblioblogosphere, for I have sinned. I have betrayed the trust of my librarian people by *gasp* loving my Kindle like I am told I would love a child if I had any interest in being a parent, which I donat. But I do have an interest in reading digital content on a sleek, affordable, and easy-to-use device. Thus the Kindle. Later in the piece there is some counter language: Now that weave covered the pros, hereas why I detest the Kindle as a librarian Full blog post at the Librarian in Black N7M9ZX (Source: LISNews.org)

Story at Teleread.com Yep, you are reading this right. Itas actually quite easy now to get Kindle books on Nook color and have both eBook stores available to you on a single device. This is possible because Nook Color is more of an entry level Android tablet than a dedicated eReader. As it comes out of the box it just happens to start the Nook application by default and not let users run anything else. http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/read-kindle-books-on-your-nookcolor/ (Source: LISNews – Librarian And Information Science News)

Story at Teleread.com Yep, you are reading this right. Itas actually quite easy now to get Kindle books on Nook color and have both eBook stores available to you on a single device. This is possible because Nook Color is more of an entry level Android tablet than a dedicated eReader. As it comes out of the box it just happens to start the Nook application by default and not let users run anything else. http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/read-kindle-books-on-your-nookcolor/ (Source: LISNews.org)

Amazon’s Kindle 3 ebook reader believed to have sold almost 8m unitsAmazon says that its Kindle 3 ebook reader has become the site’s best-selling product ever, and that on Christmas Day more people activated new Kindles, downloaded Kindle apps and bought ebooks than on any previous day.The company announced that sales of the Kindle 3 had overtaken the previous record holder, the book of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, released in July 2007. That had seen 1m pre-orders online before it was published, and has sold more than 40m copies worldwide a though it is unknown what proportion would have been sold through Amazon.The company has not released sales figures for the Kindle, though sources within the company told Bloomberg this month that it will have sold about 8m Kindles by the end of this year. Bloomberg said the figures come from “two people who are aware of the company’s sales projections”.Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and chief executive, said: “We’re seeing that many of the people who are buying Kindles also own an LCD tablet [referring to devices such as Apple's iPad], released in April a| Customers report using their LCD tablets for games, movies and web browsing, and their Kindles for reading sessions … Kindle’s $139 price point is a key factor a it’s low enough that people don’t have to choose.”The online retailer has always been reluctant to give a figure for how many Kindles have been sold, possibly because it does not want it to be compared with those from consumer electronics companies such as Apple and Sony. But the numbers provided are about 60% higher than analysts’ forecasts of about 5m Kindles this year.By contrast, Apple is expected to about 12m of its iPad tablets this year, having begun selling them in April.KindleE-readersAmazon.comInternetE-commerceHarry PotteriPadTablet computersRetail industryCharles Arthurguardian.co. …

Amazon is probably the largest bookseller, dollar-wise, in America and the world. Certainly, it is the largest ebook seller in America. And Amazon has spread its tentacles so that it is not only a bookseller, but it competes with publishers as a publisher. Amazon has positioned itself so that, with the exception of the big publishing houses like Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Random House, authors and publishers believe their books must be available for sale on Amazon or they will never make it. I have yet to hear of anyone cry, for example, that the failure of Barnes & Noble or Sony ebookstores to carry their ebook is a crisis. But we do hear and feel that panic when it comes to Amazon. The result of this concentration of power is that Amazon is given the opportunity to censor. I grant that Amazon is free to decide what products it wants to sell or not sell; after all, it is not a governmental agency that must be neutral in the marketplace. But saying that begs the question because by agreeing with that proposition (i.e., Amazon is free to sell or not sell a particular book or genre of books), we are also saying that Amazon is free to dictate what an author writes, a publisher publishes, and a reader reads a at least if you are an author or publisher who believes that not being sold by Amazon is tantamount to writing death or a consumer who believes that the only place to buy a book is from Amazon. Amazonas Kindle has changed the worlds of reading, writing, and publishing. Although the change has been largely for the good a more books are being sold (and hopefully read) a there is also a dark side to the Kindle world. The dark side begins with a proprietary format that is designed to lock the average consumer into buying books only at Amazon. …

CrunchGear is reporting that by rooting the NookColor you can install the Kindle reading application on the device. To root the device you need one of theAutorooter images andWin32ImageWriter for Windows or Mac OS/Linux tools to write the image to an MicroSD card. Then you upload the Kindle app from the Android store and rock out. This process also adds GMail, YouTube, and a number of other standard Android goodies to your previously stripped-down NookColor. The whole process isA right here and it should be a fine ride. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Picked this up from a tweet by Stephen Windwalker. Amazon has a new page for daily cheap Kindle books. I just checked it out and all of the books listed are $2.99. I bought A Spy’s Diary of World War II: Inside the OSS with an American Agent in Europe, by Wayne Nelson. Amazon lists its “Digital List Price” as $24.99 and the print list price as $35.00. I guess I’ll have to bookmark this page. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

1. “Barnes & Noble fails to end Nook lawsuit” (by Jonathan Stempel, Reuters) 2. “Kobo Gains Instapaper Support” (by Chris Hall 148 Apps) 3. “KOBO Breaks E-Book Records This Holiday Season” 4. “Helpful advice for new Kindle owners” (by Chris Walters, TeleRead) 5. “iFlow ebook reader for iPad launches ” [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

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