Amazon created quite a reaction when it recently unveiled its own idea of a public library: free lending of one e-book at a time to anyone with a Kindle e-book reader and a $79 annual subscription to the Amazon Prime service. Amazon states that: “Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free, including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers — as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates. No other e-reader or ebook store offers such a service.” So is this “Kindle Owner’s Lending Library” a major threat to public libraries or not? A report in Time Techland, a publication of Time Inc. indicate some major limitations: http://techland.time.com/2011/11/07/amazon-prime-free-kindle-e-book-list-full-of-filler-public-domain/   Of the 100… Read More »Kindle Lending Library: a Threat to Public Libraries?