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Originally Posted by HarryT
You may perhaps be misled by the way that Amazon show things on the screen. When it says "$0 for Prime Members" (or whatever it is that it says), that indicates that the book can be borrowed from the Prime Lending Library, not that you can actually keep it forever free of charge.
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IMHO that is wrong. Here is a link for a FREE PURCHASE of an Amazon eBook:
http://www.amazon.com/Tag-Team-ebook...ika+for+kindle
That eBook has an Amazon price of 99 cents for non-Prime members.
However, I am a Prime Member and it may display differently if one is not a Prime Member. If I PURCHASE that eBook, I keep it permanently and it does not affect my borrowing limits. An invoice is created with a zero charge. My wife has "purchased" many of those ebooks and I still have them in my library. They did not affect borrowed eBooks.
Borrowed ebooks must be initiated from the Device: PW or KFHD.
There are MILLIONS of purchase for free eBooks for Prime members in addition to having borrowing priveleges for others. Many of those "eBooks" are less than 200 pages with some being only a few pages.
In addition Prime Members now have the privelege to LOAN eBooks they purchased to their family and friends. One just goes back to the eBook page on Amazon and brings up the Loan Pane and then enters the email address of the Loanee. The Loanee does not have to be a Prime Member.
If one loans the eBook, one cannot use it for 2 weeks while the Loanee reads it. After the 2 week period it is returned to the Loaner.
It appears that, if an eBook privately published via Amazon stops selling paid copies, Amazon drops them to the free purchase list for Prime Members. That provision may even be part of the contract the author signs with Amazon. It may not apply to all ebooks offered by most brick and mortar publishers.
My problem with that policy is that it never applies to footnoted, long eBooks of 600 pages up to 1,000 pages. Those are the only eBooks I read and my choices are history and biography.
One added benefit for Prime Members just started in the last 10 days is free ONE DAY delivery on all purchases. I purchased two items and received them the NEXT DAY. I don't believe Amazon has announced this yet.