You can only lend a kindle book once?

[secretlyevil]

I'm confused, can someone clarify for me? I'm reading amazon and it's not helping.

[amyb2332]

Yeah, I'm pretty positive you can only lend ebooks once (that's the same for nook or kindle). I don't think it is B&N / Amazon rule either. I think that rule is something publishers have set.

[angnshaun]

Yes nook & kindle only have the option to lend once.

[aurora]

Yes, which is the main reason I'm still reading more books in paper format.

[fluff]

That stinks. I just lent a book for the first time and didn't know this.

[PinkSquirrel]

This is why ebooks drive me crazy and I pretty much refuse to purchase ebooks (I will purchase the rare 99 cent book). DRM is obnoxious, customers hate it and there is zero reason why I should not be able to lend an ebook to friends in the same way I'm able to lend a physical book to friends. I'm not sure why the book industry didn't get the memo. DRM pissed people off when it came to music and videos. Both the music and movie industry gave it the axe years ago because it was doing more harm to people that had legally purchased the materials than to people sharing it on napster/bittorrent/etc.

[Pippin]

This is just one of the reasons ebooks drive me insane even though I love my Kindle. Another being that there is no option to bundle a physical book with an ebook version much like DVD/bluray packs have a digital copy as well. I would gladly pay a few extra bucks to buy a book if it came with an ebook download. I just wish publishers would figure this out since Amazon and B&N are pushing ereaders so much.

[secretlyevil]

Well then lendle.me isn't as great a find as I originally thought. This sucks big twinkees. My IRL book club is reading the Great Gatsby in June. So the kindle version is $12.99 and the paperback is $9.00 and it isn't lendable. How the hell does that make sense? I'm not even sure where I am on the wait list for my library. Good grief. H is going to be surprised that he really isn't saving money by buying me a kindle.

[PinkSquirrel]

Jun 5, 2012 10:11:54 GMT -5 Pippin said:

This is just one of the reasons ebooks drive me insane even though I love my Kindle. Another being that there is no option to bundle a physical book with an ebook version much like DVD/bluray packs have a digital copy as well. I would gladly pay a few extra bucks to buy a book if it came with an ebook download. I just wish publishers would figure this out since Amazon and B&N are pushing ereaders so much.

This would be a dream

[duckduck]

And don't even get me started on how the publishers are screwing libraries when it comes to ebooks.

[secretlyevil]

Anything to make a buck.

[GilliC]

I once got in an argument with an otherwise-rational human being who was arguing that if this rule didn't exist, people would just get together and create big online repositories of books that could be borrowed from each other, and no one would ever buy books again.

Me: ...Yeah! Imagine if they did that with real books! Put a bunch of them in one place and let you come by and borrow them for free. No one would ever buy books again!

He insisted that e-lending would be catastrophic to the publishing industry without actually acknowledging that libraries haven't hurt the book sales bottom line. I got so irritated that I had to drop the subject before I punched him.

[PinkSquirrel]

That's what drives me even more crazy about how the book industry is doing things. Unlike the the movie and music industries there has always been a place to get FREE books. Granted you can take out music and movies from the library, but it's minor portion of what goes on at libraries.

If they're so worried at least give people a reasonable number of times they can lend books. One time is just insane and a lot of books you can't lend at all.

If people want the ebooks for free, they'll get them for free. It's not hard. It makes far more sense to make ebooks reasonably priced (and ALWAYS cheaper than the paper book) and make it easy for them to use in the same way they used paper books.

[polarbearfans]

Jun 5, 2012 10:11:54 GMT -5 Pippin said:

This is just one of the reasons ebooks drive me insane even though I love my Kindle. Another being that there is no option to bundle a physical book with an ebook version much like DVD/bluray packs have a digital copy as well. I would gladly pay a few extra bucks to buy a book if it came with an ebook download. I just wish publishers would figure this out since Amazon and B&N are pushing ereaders so much.

I would love this! My husband keeps wanting to get me a nook but I love real books on my shelf and to read but would like a nook for the pool or reading in bed at night.

[GilliC]

Jun 5, 2012 22:31:46 GMT -5 polarbearfans said:

Jun 5, 2012 10:11:54 GMT -5 Pippin said:

This is just one of the reasons ebooks drive me insane even though I love my Kindle. Another being that there is no option to bundle a physical book with an ebook version much like DVD/bluray packs have a digital copy as well. I would gladly pay a few extra bucks to buy a book if it came with an ebook download. I just wish publishers would figure this out since Amazon and B&N are pushing ereaders so much.

I would love this! My husband keeps wanting to get me a nook but I love real books on my shelf and to read but would like a nook for the pool or reading in bed at night.

A lot of computer book companies actually do this. They know that computer people like the digital copies, especially because it's so easy to search through them for key text. So the publishers actually include a code or registration key in the paper book to allow you to download a .PDF version from their website. They figure you'll share it with a few colleagues at a minimum, so a lot of the time they'll just watermark every page with your name, so there's a record of where it came from if things get out of control.