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  E-Book Library Lending Rises, Publishing Industry Grapples With Change

  1119 readers By Barbara Galletly, Contributor, Digital Book World, @theregoesbabs As e-books have become a core part of U.S. publishers’ business, libraries, booksellers and startups have built e-book lending programs aimed at providing remote customers armed with e-readers a modern version of what they once could get only by visiting their local library. Amazon says that its Kindle Owners’

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  International Expansion ‘May Be Best’ Opportunity for Publishers

  551 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The 500 million to one billion people around the world who speak English as a second language represent what “may be the best opportunity” for publishers in the future, according to Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content, who spoke this morning at the Digital Book World

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  Amazon’s Russ Grandinetti at DBW: Kindle Fire Owners Buy More Children’s Books

  1436 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The time for children’s digital picture books may have finally come. Owners of the new Amazon tablet computer, Kindle Fire, buy nearly three times more children’s books as their e-ink Kindle counterparts, according to Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content, who spoke this morning at the Digital

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  Ken Follett’s Kindle Sales Dropped 48% After $2 Price Increase On Book

  Array readersOn the stage at Digital Book World today, Russ Grandinetti, VP of Kindle Content at Amazon, spoke about the benefits of releasing books in eBook form. Boasting Amazon’s sales figures –the Kindle being the top selling item of all time; Kindle owners...

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  Amazon institutes a Kindle lending library

  1196 readers Amazing!  Andrys Basten has the full lowdown on her Kindle World Blog: KINDLE OWNERS LENDING LIBRARY WITH NY TIMES BESTSELLERS, FOR PRIME MEMBERS The title is in caps, because I really didn’t expect the Kindle Owners Lending Library program would actually be put into effect, knowing how stubborn some publishers are about allowing even public

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  Kindle Owners’ Lending Library reaches 100K books

  1381 readers From the press release: The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library continues to grow rapidly, now offering more than 100,000 books that Amazon Prime members with Kindles can borrow for free—including over 100 New York Times Best Sellers like The Hunger Games trilogy—as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates. “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library continues to grow rapidly – with

• Amazon puts out the official word on its Kindle Book public library lending program

  2332 readersAs part of the Morning Brief post below I mentioned the program Amazon and Overdrive have launched for Kindle book lending at public libraries. Well, Amazon has rolled out a press release on the program, and here it is: Kindle Books Now Available at over 11,000 Local LibrariesKindle the only e-reader to deliver library books wirelessly;

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  Amazon Juices Kindle Lending Library Payout for KDP Select Authors

  1723 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Due to strong borrowing by Kindle Prime subscribers in December, Amazon has increased its monthly bonus pool for KDP Select authors in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to $700,000 from $500,000. In a statement, Amazon said that Kindle owners borrowed 295,000 KDP Select titles in December and that

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  Seattle area libraries test Kindle e-book lending program

  1703 readersAmazon’s convenience store package drops aren’t the only new thing it’s testing in Seattle. Reports are surfacing that Seattle area libraries are the first to get to try Amazon’s new Overdrive-based Kindle library lending program. Patrons with Kindles can download time-limited-license e-books in Amazon’s AZW format via WiFi or USB. The books can be checked

• Digital Book World Conference + Expo: Four Perspectives on the State of the Publishing Industry

  115 readers [Press Release] Digital Book World Conference + Expo: Four Perspectives on the State of the Publishing Industry   January 3, 2013 – NEW YORK –Will the proliferation of tablets combined with relaxed price controls drive sales of ebooks? Are publishing CEOs bullish or bearish on sales growth potential in the coming year? Should investors look for opportunities in