Kindle eBook Loans Now Possible, Amazon eBook-handling Empire to Grow to New Heights

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The Kindle is one of Amazon’s best-selling products and certainly the best Amazon-made device to date. And Amazon is interested in making the most of its eBook reader by offering new features to the eBook-loving crowds. Amazon is ready to let its customers lend books to each other, a feature that has been announced earlier this year, and could help Amazon’s book/eBook empire grow even more.

eBook lending is a great feature that so many users could enjoy, but it’s not all good news here since not all titles will be available to lend out. Moreover you won’t be able to lend the same book to more than one person at a time and you’ll only be able to access the title in question after 14 days.

Your friend also has 14 days to read the eBook and he can access either via his or her Kindle or through a Kindle application for iOS or Android devices or through the computer Kindle clients for Mac and PCs. In order to access the book, he or she will have to accept it via email and have an Amazon account in order for this whole eBook-lending procedure to work.

eBook-lending is something we can now expect to see other eBook providers to offer in order to match Amazon’s current offers. Because, at the end of the day eBook-lending could help Amazon sell more Kindles to those readers that keep borrowing eBooks without actually owning a Kindle reader, not to mention sell more eBooks in the first place. After all one can’t keep lending eBooks all the time! In fact Barnes & Noble already offer nook eBook-lending and similarly, other eBook stores could enable it to actually increase eReaders and eBook sales.

Have you lent any good Kindle eBook yet? Or are you more of a borrower?