eBook Lending Takes Off, Worries Publishers

wsj.com:

In the past few months, online clubs with such names as BookLending.com and Lendle.me have proliferated. The sites, some of which have gathered thousands of users, allow strangers to borrow and lend e-books for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook free.

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Comments

[XFilesTheTruthIsOutThere]

04:19 AM on 03/14/2011

IMy novel is available at Amazon for $4.99 and I do hope you'll read it. For anyone who doesn't have a Kindle, iPad, iPhone or Smartphone (Blackberry, Android), you can download Kindle to your PC and read the novel. Kook owners, I'm working with Barnes & Nobel to making my novel available to you!

http://bit.ly/takemehomebook

[pita143]

01:45 PM on 03/13/2011

E Books can be a big deal for Publishing. I was lucky enough to win an IPad in a contest and even my Library allows me to download digital books through their site. I could really see something like an IPad replacing the very expensive College Text Books. Students have to pay out of site prices for a book that usually is not worth any where near the price. The ability of tablets to have built in Dictionaries, and cut and paste etc, will help students a great deal.