Amazon To Offer Kindle ebooks Via Public Libraries 126
destinyland writes "Amazon announced this morning that they're making Kindle ebooks available for free in America through 11,000 local public libraries. 'We're thrilled that Amazon is offering such a new approach to library ebook...' said one Seattle librarian, and one Kindle blog listed out the top advantages to having them available in libraries."
Congratulations Amazon (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What about 1984? (Score:5, Informative)
Considering it's just Overdrive, which has been around for a while now, yes, libraries have set lending periods. Mine is a choice of 7, 14, or 21 days. Yes, they do automatically get "deleted" (actually they just stop working, at least for ePub titles), but you can re-borrow them if you'd like. The bigger issue is with publishers imposing artificial scarcity on digital titles, forcing libraries to purchase a new copy after it's been borrowed a certain number of times (in order to maintain the same revenue stream they have with dead-tree books, which actually degrade).
Re:Is there a list of the libraries? (Score:4, Informative)
I've found that the classic search is much better: http://search.overdrive.com/classic/ [overdrive.com]