Tag: Library
Amazon Brings Harry Potter to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
After years of waiting and fan requests, J.K. Rowling has finally got her Pottermore site running well and offering eBook versions the Harry Potter series to owners of Kindles, Nooks,…
What Impact Does Social Media Have on Reading?
The image on the right is a really creative marketing strategy by Milwaukee Public Library. I like how they mention sites that just about everyone is familiar with. The amount…
Penguin, Overdrive, and Amazon: Kindle Library Lending Gets Complicated
Kindle owners found themselves targeted recently in a fairly unpleasant way. Penguin USA, one of the largest publishers in the world, decided that it would be a smart business move…
Kindle Book Library For Amazon Prime Members Coming Soon…Maybe
Apparently Amazon has been working on a way to offer Amazon Prime customers a Kindle platform lending library experience similar to what Netflix users have come to expect. While this…
Kindle and OverDrive Bringing Library Lending This September?
One of the biggest flaws in the idea of a Kindle purchase for a lot of people has been the complete lack of library lending support. This isn’t a new…
Considering An Extreme Possibility Of Kindle Book Lending
At this point we know that the Kindle as a physical purchase is not where Amazon is looking to make their money. If anything, the fact that they have gone…
Amazon Kindle in more libraries
In May I wrote a post about library usage of Amazon Kindle. Recently Lone Wolf Librarian did a more thorough search and uncovered at least 15 libraries that lend Kindle…
Kindle Used By Library
Gerrit van Dyk from Shaping Libraries reports that his interlibrary loan office approved pilot program for loaning Amazon Kindles to faculty staff. The idea is to serve book requests that…
Kindle Being Lent Out By Librarys
A Library in New Jersey has begun to offer Kindle’s to loan out. How cool is that? The new Kindle ebook reader from Amazon.com is certainly not oriented for the…