Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Expanding to UK, Germany, and France + Interview with Jeff Bezos
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library debuted in U.S. in early November, 2011 with about 5,000 titles. At last count, over 180,000 titles were available to U.S. KOLL users.
Today’s News From Amazon.com:
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is coming to the UK, Germany and France later this month, bringing Kindle owners with a Prime membership over 200,000 books to borrow for free as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates.
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To learn more about the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, visit:
In other Amazon.com News: “Bezos and the Future of Books” (via BBC)
Includes video.
“We sell the hardware at cost,” he explained. “We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy them.”
More from the BBC interview here.
Filed under: Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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