{"id":782,"date":"2011-11-03T21:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=782"},"modified":"2011-11-03T21:28:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:28:45","slug":"lending-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/03\/lending-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lending eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first English language reference to a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lending_library\" title=\"wikipedia: lending library\">lending library&#8221;<\/a> occurred in 1586. Since that time, they have taken many forms, including parish libraries, endowment libraries and municipal corporation libraries. Though they are to be distinguished from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circulating_library\" title=\"public library\">public (or circulating) libraries<\/a> by the source of funding, they share a fundamental concept: participants &#8220;borrow&#8221; rather than &#8220;buy&#8221; the books in question.<br \/>\nThe eBook, however, has challenged the concept of lending or borrowing books. Absent institutional support, the eBook remains tied to a single user. That&#8217;s tough to swallow. After more than five centuries of this practice, it&#8217;s also a hard habit to break. Most of us, at one time or another, have borrowed a book. I have personally lent copies of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\" title=\"Butcher, Baker\">Butcher, Baker<\/a>&#8221; to a number of people, mostly family and friends. It&#8217;s an effective and efficient way to &#8220;spread the wealth.&#8221; Some of these borrowers later became buyers.<br \/>\nNow comes news that Amazon is taking steps to bring the eBook into the lending library tradition. Well, sort of&#8230; They&#8217;ve created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/?docId=1000739811\" title=\"Kindle Owner's\">Kindle Owners&#8217; Lending Library<\/a>. The operative words here are <em>Kindle Owners&#8217;<\/em> who, by the way, must also be Amazon Prime subscribers. Yes, that&#8217;s correct. If you own any other device or eReader, you&#8217;re out of luck, even with an Amazon Prime subscription. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204621904577014273003626952.html\" title=\"Amazon drives Kindle sales\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Amazon is using this restriction to drive Kindle sales.<br \/>\nTruth told, however, there is less here than meets the eye. Of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/11\/03\/kindle-lending-book-publishers-still-not-getting-it\/\" title=\"major six publishers\">major six publishers<\/a>, none are participating in this program. So Amazon is &#8220;offering&#8221; a grand total of 5,000 books. If we put that in mobile app terms, this would qualify Amazon as a third-tier player. It&#8217;s naive, however, to think that the lack of lending capabilities will make the eBook less popular or that it won&#8217;t eventually dominate book sales. And Amazon is making the most disruptive moves here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first English language reference to a &#8220;lending library&#8221; occurred in 1586. 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