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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) will allow Kindle owners to loan e-books to each other soon. In a note to readers, Amazon.com said “later this year, we will be introducing lending for…
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Yesterday, Amazon made some interesting announcements about their e-book reader. The first is that it will soon make Kindle magazines and newspapers readable on any Kindle App.
The second is a lending feature similar to that of the Barnes and Noble Nook. Amazon Kindle users allow the lender to share specific e-books for a two-week period, with the lender unable to read a book while it is lent.
In the coming weeks, many newspapers and magazines will be available on our Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, and then we’ll be adding this functionality to Kindle for Android and our other apps down the road,
This lending feature should arrive sometime this year, but the company did not give a specific release date.
The BlackBerry Playbook has been getting a lot of press lately, and it seems to get some more press.
It looks like it will match the iPad as far as memory is concerned. It turns out that it will have 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB variants available, as well as a huge 5,300mAh battery. Not to mention the Kobo e-reader.
Amazon has announced that it will launch a Kindle Store known as Kindle Singles that works longer than a typical magazine article or as much as a few chapters of a typical book.
These Kindle Singles should be about 10,000 to 30,000, which is about 30 to 90 pages. This leaves Amazon to call on “serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world.”
There is no word as far as when this service will launch, and they could be sold for as little as 49 cents.
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