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  Amazon Lending Publishers a Hand With New Library?

  2036 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World Retail and bookselling giant Amazon Inc. is giving readers another way to obtain books, but is it good for publishers? The Seattle-based company announced its Kindle Owners’ Lending Library yesterday, a program that offers Amazon e-reader owners who are also Amazon Prime subscribers the ability to borrow from a

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  Amazon Extends Kindle Lending Library

  554 readersAmazon announced today that the Kindle Library now has more than 100,000 titles available. Kindle readers can check out a book a month without any due dates using this library. In the press release, Amazon shared some stats including the fact that, “since launching the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library in November 2011, selection has grown by over

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  Contracts on fire: Amazon’s lending library mess

  1330 readers That’s the title of an article on the Authors Guild website: Are any of the books in Amazon’s new e-book subscription/lending program properly there? Earlier this month, Amazon launched its Kindle Online Lending Library as a perk for its best group of customers, the millions who’ve paid $79 per year to join Amazon

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  Pottermore goes live – with some innovative changes to the ebook-selling model

  801 readers From FUTUReBOOK: … First, the Harry Potter brand still carries a great deal of muscle, but not enough to get Apple to change its terms. According to Charlie Redmayne, chief executive, the company has done some “groundbreaking deals” with Sony, Google, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, whereby the e-books will be featured on their sites, but the

• eBook Exclusivity — A Good or Bad Idea?

  1456 readersThe answer really is “it depends.” It depends on who you are and where you are in the ebook world. Recently, Amazon started a program for its Prime members: they can borrow 1 ebook for free each month, choosing from a list of more than 30,000 titles (and the list is growing). The source of these ebooks

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  In wake of Pottermore releases, Harry Potter piracy fought by community, Mike Shatzkin reports

  428 readersIn Mike Shatzkin’s latest essay about publishing, collecting his insights about this year’s London Book Fair, an interesting paragraph leaps out at me. Shatzkin was talking to Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne about the DRM-free release of the Harry Potter books, and reports being startled by what Redmayne had to say about Potter piracy: Apparently, Potter

• All Seven Harry Potter Books Coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

  668 readers PRESS RELEASE: All 7 Harry Potter eBooks Coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Read all of J.K. Rowling’s iconic Harry Potter series for free on your Kindle Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now includes more than 145,000 books, including over 100 current and former New York Times Best Sellers SEATTLE, May 10, 2012—Owning a Kindle just got a whole lot

• Amazon Brings Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to France, Germany, UK

  308 readers [Press Release] Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Coming to the UK, Germany and France Independent authors enrolled in KDP Select can reach more readers in Europe through the lending libraries, and earn money every time their book is borrowed KDP Select fund increased to $700,000 in October SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 11, 2012– (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that the Kindle Owners’ Lending

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  WSJ explains the economics behind lending Harry Potter ebooks by Amazon

  475 readersAmazon has just started lending Harry Potter books to their Prime members via Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. In this interesting video from The Wall Street Journal we can learn more on why Amazon decided to go into this deal with Pottermore, despite the fact, that they probably have to pay the full price of the

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  Kindle Owners’ Lending Library for Amazon Prime Members – Borrow ebooks for free reading on your Kindle.

  1046 readersIf you live in the USA, own any Kindle device and are prepared to pay Amazon $79 a year to become a member of Prime you will be able to borrow at no further cost up to one ebook a month to read. Read more on Kindle Owners’ Lending Library for Amazon Prime Members – Borrow