Amazon Will Soon Allow Kindle Users To Lend E-Books

According to this announcement from Amazon, the Kindle will soon be updated to allow users to lend books to friends and family. Lending for Kindle will allow you to loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users for a loan period of 14 days.

The lender will not be able read the book during the loan period. And not all e-books in the Kindle Store will be lendable; this will be decided by the publisher or the rights holder to the work. Interestingly, Barnes and Noble's e-reader, the Nook, has been allowing lending for some time now. Like Amazon's upcoming lending feature, LendMe also allows users to lend books for a 14 day period.

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