Melissa_W
Oh, I'm sorry if my response came across as snotty! I was afraid from your "beg your pardon" comment that you might have been offended. I was just in a hurry when I wrote it. 
Unfortunately, I suspect you can still only lend each book once, even if a friend requests it via the Borrow feature. It is too bad -- I think allowing you to lend a book something like 2 or 3 times would be more appropriate. But I suspect they made it only once as a concession to publishers, to get them to get on board with the idea.
swan480 wrote:Oh, I'm sorry if my response came across as snotty! I was afraid from your "beg your pardon" comment that you might have been offended. I was just in a hurry when I wrote it.
I suspect it is more the publishers saying, we'll agree to it for some books, but only if it is limited to once. And many publishers don't seem to want to agree with it at all, which is why not all books are lendable. Note that Amazon has announced they are adding this feature sometime in the future, and it will have the same limitations as the Nook. One time lending.
Doug_Pardee wrote:Ya_Ya wrote:
They have more users and can show more use of the service.
It's more likely that the publishers will be turned off by the added lending. They're not in the business of not selling e-books.
A lot of us reread. I often buy books I've already read. I wouldn't be surprised if they see an increase in sales of lendable books. You lend me a book. I love it, I buy it. If I never knew it existed, I wouldn't have bought it and won't now buy it.
Although your logic sounds more like the approach the publishers are likely to take based on what they've already done.
I said it was probably false hope, but you know, it doesn't hurt to hope. 
Ya_Ya wrote:
Doug_Pardee wrote:Ya_Ya wrote:
They have more users and can show more use of the service.
It's more likely that the publishers will be turned off by the added lending. They're not in the business of not selling e-books.
A lot of us reread. I often buy books I've already read. I wouldn't be surprised if they see an increase in sales of lendable books. You lend me a book. I love it, I buy it. If I never knew it existed, I wouldn't have bought it and won't now buy it.
Although your logic sounds more like the approach the publishers are likely to take based on what they've already done.
I said it was probably false hope, but you know, it doesn't hurt to hope.
It's also, to some extent, not really in the retailer's best interest, because, again, they are in the business of selling books. For some, yes, it may cause them to buy the book, but a lot of people are not rereaders, so they'll read the book and move on. It might help with introducing someone to a new series. But I'm not sure you'll ever get publishers to see it that way. And, Amazon had no success in trying to stop the agency model, so at least for a while, the publishers are entrenched in their current thinking I wouldn't expect it to change. But, as you said, one can always hope, although I've never used the lending feature anyway.
