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Amazon e-book lending soared in December along with Kindle Fire sales, as the retail giant changes the face of traditional publishing and draws a record number of readers and authors. Amazon lent 295,000 Kindle e-books in December of 2011 alone, coinciding with record-breaking sales of the reasonably priced Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Owners’ Lending [...]
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E-Book Lending Lures Readers Back to the Library
December 21st, 2011 
admin E-book lending is luring readers back to libraries, moving reading into the digital age but causing concern over rights among publishers. U.S. libraries are seeing increases in the numbers of borrowers who want digital books, with e-book lending rates nearly tripling over the past year. The renewed interest is a boon for libraries, many of [...]
