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Originally Posted by Daithi
If LendMe applied to all books on the B&N site and if you could relend a book then this would be a huge selling point -- even if you could only lend to other Nook owners.
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I wish Amazon had something like this, but my guess is that publishers would opt out.
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I'm not sure it occurred to Amazon. B&N is trying to replicate what a reader with a paper book can do. If I have a paper book, I can lend it to you and you can read it, but while it's lent out
I don't have it. Two people can't read the same paper book at the same time unless they are sitting close together and looking at the same copy.
But B&N can't do this by themselves. The publisher has to
allow lending of the book. If they aren't willing to license that right to B&N, B&N can't permit it on the device. B&N stated in their announcement that lendable books would be identified in their catalog. We'll see as time passes which books are lendable, and which publishers embrace the concept.
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Dennis