News – 1) Amazon’s Russ Grandinetti tells a publishers’ audience at Digital Book World that early data indicate the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is boosting customer purchases of books by authors whose work is available in the library. Laura Hazard Owen has the story. 2) NBC is proud as a peacock over its new e-book venture, NBC [...]
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News – Amazon on November 3rd launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, a game-changing add-on to the $79 annual Prime membership. Everyone from David Pogue to MIT’s Technology Review wonders how they can afford to offer free e-books to customers. The Wall Street Journal quotes a worried publisher and notes that the six largest publishers [...]
