I haven't read the entire press release yet, but some big details:
- Kindle Library Lending will be available for all generations of Kindle devices and free Kindle reading apps.
- Notes & highlights (love this one!): While they won't be visible to other customers, if a Kindle book is checked out again or that book is purchased from Amazon, all of a customer's annotations and bookmarks will be preserved.
- Amazon is working with OverDrive, the leading provider of digital content solutions for over 11,000 public and educational libraries in the United States
Though I wonder... it doesn't seem like these will be ePubs. If notes and annotations are easily transferred if you decide to buy the book from Amazon at a later date, then I assume this means they will be regular Kindle format (.azw) rather than ePubs - if so, Kindle users might not be competing in line with Nook & Sony Reader owners.
Don't have a Kindle
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