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A FEW WEEKEND STORIES, while I was away

KINDLE BOOK LENDING CLUBS
With the fast proliferation of sites for Nook and Kindle book-lending and borrowing, eBook Exchange offers something different in that this new site lets Kindle & Nook owners "swap e-books and "help kids while doing so."

 With the book-lending programs (however limited they are) now available at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon,  Tainted Green's Kathryn Robbins asks,

' But what if you could share your e-books outside your circle of friends and benefit children's literacy programs? eBook Exchange hopes that their used e-book idea can change the marketplace and help literacy programs aimed at kids.

  eBook Exchange is a hybrid of a second hand bookstore and library.  Kindle or Nook owners can use their sharing feature to share any number of their titles online.  According to their site, titles can be shared for free or borrowers may pay a fee that goes to childhood literacy programs.  Cheapskates will love the fact that the fee is essentially optional; if they score a title they are encouraged, not forced, to pay.  The company says that one hundred percent of their profits in 2011 will go to charity. '

I guess how "profits" are calculated is key, depending on what they expense, but it sounds promising.  See eBookExchange's page to read how this would work, but both will use the ebook lending functionality put in place by the two online book stores.

The earliest lending sites have geared up, the most successful one, at Facebook, needing to branch out in the last week to its own site because Facebook's setup was not able to handle the level of interest.


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