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No, lending is a part of Amazon Kindle. [1] [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200549320 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/cust

• gsivil 16y ago
  "Eligible Kindle books can be loaned once for a period of 14 days" Does any one know if lending dead-tree books is legal? It sounds ridiculous I know but is not it outrageous that you can not lend your own e-book to whomever you want for as long as you want as many times as you want, or it is just me?
  • bryanlarsen 16y ago
    There's a typo in your comment. You said "your own" e-book. Just because you paid for it doesn't mean you own it. Amazon does as much as it can to pretend that it's your book so that it can justify charging full price for what is actually much closer in practice to a rental.
  • nickpinkston 16y ago
    That's why I stick to borrowing books on BitTorrent...
  • AgentConundrum 16y ago
    At least in the US (I'm Canadian, FWIW), it's explicitly legal to lend dead-tree books under the First Sale Doctrine[1]. The reason that this doesn't work for ebooks is that, unlike a physical book, you're only buying a license to use it (i.e. the same limitation you get on software). I personally see this as a huge step backwards, and for that reason alone I'll be buying hard copy books for the foreseeable future. I'd love to have a Kindle or another eReader, but I just can't abide the limitations. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
  • delackner 16y ago
    Of course it is outrageous, but once again the publishers are simply repeating the playbook that has served the music and movie industries so well: treat your customers like thieves, wait a few years, harvest a nice crop of actual thieves.