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Originally Posted by rsullivan
I was surprised that this came in with no pre-announcement etc. As someone whose husband sells a lot of kindles (10,000 this month alone) I went "eep" thinking it would really hurt his sales - but then I looked into it and it is only a single loan so no problems there.
Overall I think we'll see more and more of this kind of thing in the future. - Not sure exactly what it will mean to those people who publish on ebooks.
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I think it depends on what kind of material you're releasing on Kindle. I imagine that someone who writes a novella isn't going to be very happy at the potential prospect of two people reading their book for every single sale they make. At the other end of the spectrum, I don't think reference book publishers are going to be affected much at all. How many reference works are you going to want to hold on to for only two weeks? Travel guides might suffer from the lending, but I think that will be the worst of it, for reference.