Amazon enables lending of Kindle books

By on Dec 30, 2010 at 5:41 PM
eBooks December 30, 2010

The first sentence of a support article posted on Amazon’s support site provides the meat and potatoes of today’s big announcement: “Eligible Kindle books can be loaned once for a period of 14 days.” Loans must be initiated from Amazon’s website — by entering the loanees name and email address — at which point a notification email is sent to the gifted party. The company notes that customers “can receive the book loan even if they do not yet have a Kindle or Kindle reading application.” Books are not available to be read by the book owner until the loan period has expired and the feature is currently only available in the United States. Hit the read link to check out the full article, complete with FAQs.

Thanks, @danheinz!

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  • Eengle1344

    Hell the library gives books for 21 days
    If you buy a book shouldn’t you be able to decide how long you loan out something you paid for

  • Brett

    Someone is finally starting to get this digital thing. Can we sell them “used” yet?

  • Jon

    My Kindle just said a giant, “fuck you,” to the Nook.

  • http://twitter.com/goodman Goodman Holiday

    Nice feature in theory. I just checked though, and almost none of the Kindle books I own are lendable.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who thinks they ‘own’ a book they buy of Amazon for their Kindle has lost all sense of reality.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XMIICD5PQ73NE5WNEWXFYUTXRM Thomas

    I don’t have a kindle but seriously considering buying an ebook reader soon. Can someone answer this question…If i have to loan the book through the amazon website then how does my kindle know to block me from reading it while on loan. If I turn off wifi and/or 3g on the kindle then there’s no way the kindle will ‘check in’ to lock the book. Am I looking at this wrong?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XMIICD5PQ73NE5WNEWXFYUTXRM Thomas

    I don’t have a kindle but seriously considering buying an ebook reader soon. Can someone answer this question…If i have to loan the book through the amazon website then how does my kindle know to block me from reading it while on loan. If I turn off wifi and/or 3g on the kindle then there’s no way the kindle will ‘check in’ to lock the book. Am I looking at this wrong?

  • Tech-Writer

    Until they support Epub and library use, Nook has them beat.

  • Grammatically Concerned

    ‘Loan’ is a noun. Someone please tell Amazon. I will give you a loan. I will lend you money. There is actually a difference. I understand that most people don’t know the difference, but a website that made its name selling books should definitely know the difference.

  • Jon

    @Grammatically Concerned

    You are wrong. In America (where BGR and Amazon are from), and other English speaking countries, “loan” is/has been accepted as a verb for quite some time.

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