Amazon: 14-Day Lending Coming to Kindle "Later This Year"
Amazon will allow Kindle users to lend books to each other for 14-day periods, the company announced this afternoon.
The lending feature has been one of the primary selling points of Barnes & Nobles’s Nook e-reader, which is slated for a refresh next week. As with Barnes & Nobles’s lending feature, Kindle lenders will not be able to access the book on loan during the 14-day period, nor will they be able to loan the book to the same user more than once.
“Not all books will be lendable,” Amazon added, noting that it was entirely up to the publisher or rights holder to determine whether to participate in the program.
» via Mashable
Yay! I’ve been hoping for this, mostly to keep me on the side of good rather than stripping DRM or pirating books.
