Amazon Playing Early April Fools on Lendle?

Just yesterday we reported that Amazon had shut down the eBook lending site cleverly named "Lendle."  Turns out Amazon was just having a little fun early, I guess, and rescinded the shut downedness.  Lendle's blog states:


"We’re thrilled to report that Amazon has reinstated our api access, and Lendle is back up and running. Welcome back, Lendlers!"


Welcome back, indeed.

eBook News That's Fit to ePrint II: Electric Bookaloo

Welcome to another installment of the eBook News.  Sometimes, so much news comes in we just have to shove it all at you at once.  Here we go:

The courts turned down Google's big settlement over digitizing books from the nations libraries.  The federal judge in the case said giving Google the right to continue would exploit copyrights.  Ouch.  I mean, man that had to really hurt.  And I love Google, but man that really had to hurt.  New York Times

Amazon shuts down the eBook lending site cleverly named Lendle.  Citing a concern for their book owners, Amazon got all Mean Joe Greene and blocked their asses.  I just made a sports reference that fit.  Guardian

Best-selling author Barry Eisler turned down a $500,000 contract with a major publisher and instead self publish online.  Yep.  I will never see that kind of money outside of it blowing the hell up in a Michael Bay movie.  techeye

EbscoHost is using the service NetLibrary that it bought from OCLC a while back to give previews of eBooks.  And you thought they were just for peer-reviewed journal articles.  So did I.  Neato.  prweb

And that's it for today.  Sorry I did not take the time to comment on each and every one of them in all the glory that they required, but I did not want to.  I am busy, what can I say?

Used eBook Store? Kindle Lending Club

I can haz friends.

The Internet has stepped up and started what could be considered a used ebook store.  Due to Kindle's new policy in which you can share Kindle ebooks between Kindle devices/apps, the Kindle Lending Club has offered to allow you to contact other Kindle users and share books with them.  (Holy shit, I just said that K-word a lot. Never again.)  All you have to do is go to the site, register, and see if anybody is sharing a book you want.   There is a lot of rules about how long you get it and stuff that is all dependent on Amazon's lending policy, but still that's an awesome idea that both spreads buying ebooks and lending ebooks.  Just remember, don't be a dick, buy and share yours too.  It is not like you buy and read the new Tom Clancy and immediately have to reread it.

[UPDATE: I'm writing from a year in the in the FUTURE!!!! booga booga.  Seriously, this is old news, might not be relevant anymore.  Have a nice day! 19 Jan 2012, ew]

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