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发帖数: 3419 | 1 Amazon to Launch Library Lending Program for Kindle Books
Allowing students to access select textbooks on Kindle devices and apps for
iPhone, Android, BlackBerry.
Friday, Apr 22, 2011 | Updated 8:58 AM EDT
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The Kindle Library Lending Program will allow students to access electronic
textbooks on the Amazon
Kindle, as well as a variety of other devices that support the Kindle app.
By Sara Beladi
Let go of that guilt, Young Scholar. You weren't lying when you told the
parents your new iPhone was for
school.
Starting later this year, participating university and college campus
libraries will carry Kindle books, which
can be read on any Kindle device or free Kindle app for iPhone, iPad, iPod
touch, BlackBerry, or Windows
Phone.
"We're doing a little something extra here," said Jay Marine, Director,
Amazon Kindle in an announcement.
"Normally, making margin notes in library books is a big no-no. But we're
extending our Whispersync
technology so that you can highlight and add margin notes to Kindle books
you check out...your notes will
not show up when the next patron checks out the book. But if you check out
the book again, or
subsequently buy it, your notes will be there just as you left them..."
In addition to Whispersync technology, Kindle books will feature real page
numbers that will correspond to
actual print additions. An earlier version of the Kindle -- used in a 2009
Arizona State University e-
textbook experiment supported by Amazon -- featured location numbers, which
participants said were
long and sometimes awkward to type on small keyboards, rather than "real"
page numbers.
"More colleges and schools worldwide are looking into providing students
with e-books than ever before,"
said Dan Stasiewski, a representative for OverDrive -- Amazon's partner in
the new library lending program.
A March 2011 OnCampus Electronic Book and E-Reader Device Report backs
Stasiewski's claim: the results
showed a 6 percent increase in e-book purchases when compared to a similar
study conducted in October
2010.
The report also showed that print textbooks remain preferred media option
among this demographic. 75
percent of the 655 students surveyed said that, if the choice was entirely
theirs, they would select a print
textbook.
Virginia Community Colleges' libraries currently provide audiobooks, music,
and video via OverDrive, which
was involved in an e-book debate earlier this year when HarperCollins
decided the number of times libraries
may lend its e-books to 26. Many observers wonder what licensing
restrictions will apply and what content
will be available through the lending program.
More than 11,000 public and educational libraries are currently set to
participate in the Kindle Library
Lending Program. It is not immediately clear whether any D.C. area schools
are included in this figure.
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