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  Lendle – Yet another site for people to lend and borrow ebooks for Kindles

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  Finally We Have Ebook Gift Vouchers – Livrada and Target Make a Start.

  576 readersUp till now, giving friends ebooks has been a rather impersonal matter, we really only had the choice of sending an email notification that they could pick up an ebook from a particular ebook seller, and we needed to know which model ereader our friends own too, but this is now changing. Livrada and Target (in

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  Two articles on lending ebooks, by Sue Polanka

  2284 readersMy friend and colleague, Erik Christopher (@eBookNoir), recently wrote a two part article on lending eBooks for Publishing Perspectives.  Cleverly titled, “Friends Romans, Librarians:  Lend Me Your eBooks” (parts 1 and 2), Christopher discusses lending issues with Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and OverDrive. Friends, Romans, Librarians: Lend Me Your E-book (Part 1) Friends, Romans, Librarians:

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  Win a MiGear ereader! We have one example to give away to a lucky ebook reader……

  1441 readersSome one has to win this ereader! I have been overwhelmed by the reaction to the post I wrote on this ereader, so far over 4000 Australians and New Zealanders have read that article, and a very active and helpful discussion has sprung up, both on the c...

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  840 readersIn the November 4, 2010, Scientific American, writer David Pogue discussed the problems he sees with eBook readers and eBooks in general. One of his major issues is that you can’t share eBooks with friends and family. He asks “Why shouldn’t you be able to pass along an e-book just the way you’d pass on

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  Have You Backed Up Your Ebooks Lately?

  888 readersDid you here what happened over the weekend? Google accidentally reset 150 thousand GMail accounts. That’s 150 thousand people who have lost all their emails, contact info, and any attached files. Some of them have used GMail for 5 years or more,...

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  Will the UK legalize private digital media copying?

  800 readersOne of the pesky difference between e-books and printed books involves the idea of lending books to friends or family. With a paper book, this is perfectly legal; one simply hands the chunk of dead tree over and the other party begins to read it. But with e-books, the issue becomes thornier. If you e-mail

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  Is DRM About To Die? Tor Books Announce The End Of DRM Protection On All Their Ebooks.

  1461 readersIn what may well be the first sign of the end of them much hated DRM system of copyright protection on ebooks, Macmillan subsidiary Tom Doherty Associates (home to scifi publishers Tor Books, as well as Forge, Orb and others) announced that its entire ebook catalogue will be DRM-free by July 2012. Read more on Is

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  Author/Publisher Direct-to-Reader eBook Sales-Two Downsides for Readers by David Wogahn

  1825 readers here has been considerable discussion lately about authors and publishers selling their ebooks directly to readers, much of it fueled by J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore announcement. The approach is technically feasible as well as financially lucrative. Why give stores like Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble (etc.) a cut if you don’t have to? As an avid