Kindle Connects to Library E-Books (Published 2011)

For years the availability of free e-books from libraries was something of an underground secret. But Amazon significantly increased the potential visibility of library e-books on Wednesday when it opened up its popular Kindle device to these books for the first time. “Libraries are a critical part of our communities,” Jay Marine, director of Kindle at Amazon, said in a statement. “And we’re excit

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"if a library buys 10 copies of a certain book, for instance, then only 10 copies can be digitally checked out at one time."←物理書籍と同じ扱いなんだな。

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“Libraries are a critical part of our communities,” Jay Marine, director of Kindle at Amazon, said in a statement. “And we’re excited to be making Kindle books available at more than 11,000 local libraries around the country.” The introduction of the Kindle, the biggest-selling e-reader, o