Thread: Amazon to launch Library Lending
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Old 04-21-2011, 05:39 AM   #144
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey View Post
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.
It's already been posted several times that it isn't going to cost libraries anything extra to add Kindle version to their catalog. So, barring other factors, this isn't going to happen.
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