Kindle Books for Lending will grow. / High interest in Kindle by Net users.

UPDATE ON KINDLE-BOOK LENDING SITUATION

As I mentioned in the initial announcement of Kindle-book lending, people were reporting very low percentages of books marked as "Lendable" and almost none of mine were so I felt they were still implementing the system but wanted to announce it before year-end as expected and that they would continue to enable Lending on the books as it went or when they had publisher approvals assured.

Since then, I've seen a report of what one Kindle customer representative had to say about the situation, and others have chimed in on what they see with their own libraries.  Here's a sampling from the latest posts at the same forum thread but shown there as sorted by Newest Post First this time.


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Amazon begins its KINDLE-BOOK LENDING program, finally - Update3

AMAZON ACTUALLY STARTS KINDLE-BOOK LENDING PROGRAM.

On time too -- year end.
This started as a preview of the new Kindle-book lending feature as described by Amazon.

  I tweeted this development, at about 3:45 PM PST after reading about it on the forums where it was already a busy message thread.

  That main Kindle Team Forum Announcement is at the Amazon Kindle Community forums, and I'm adding a bit more in this update with modifications to the earlier afternoon report .

  REMINDER: If your web browser (especially Firefox) drops you onto the Amazon Kindle Forum's list of topics instead of bringing you directly to a forum thread, click on Refresh or Reload to get the message thread itself -- or click again on the link here.  I don't know why a 'retry' is often needed with the forums, but it is, in my case at least.

Here's the very brief announcement for the blog record:


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