Amazon announced that starting Nov. 3, 2011, Kindle users who are Amazon Prime subscribers are the only users who will have the access to Amazon's new ebook lending library.
According to amazon also that the library won’t be available to those using Kindle apps on other devices, and it’s opening with a fairly small selection of books: just over 5,000, the Wall Street Journal reports.
That’s because none of the top six US publishers are participating in the plan.
Publishers are worried that such a library could hurt both sales of older books and the publishers’ ties to other booksellers. Still, the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library will offer about 100 bestsellers of the past and present. Users will be allowed one book per month, and they can keep it until they download a new one.
Do you think this will affect Amazon Kindle products?
