Thread: Amazon to launch Library Lending
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Old 04-21-2011, 05:24 AM   #143
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
Not unless Overdrive changes how they lend out ebooks. Right now each format is treated as a different physical copy. Borrowing the PDF still leaves the ePub available. If they continue that pattern then a bunch of new Kindle users won't matter at all really. That's conjecture of course until we see how it's implemented.
Libraries won't double their inventory for free. What most likely will happen is that instead of buying ePub copies like they do now, they'll just buy a license for a book to be delivered in either ePub or Kindle format.

Let's say a library has 3 copies of the latest bestseller and 3 Kindles users check out those copies, that means there are no copies left for ePub users and they'll have to join the wait list.

This will definitely have an impact on wait times.
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