03-22-2011, 11:58 AM | #1 |
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Lendme Problems
If you lend a title to someone and the 14 days are up, the book reverts back to you and you can read it again. Can't you then lend it to someone else?
I lent a few books to a friend and months later when i try to lend one to someone else the feature is not on my Nook. I looked at my Nook Library on BN.com and under the title it says, "You've already lent this item." By this, I can only lend it to one person, ever? I've contacted BN customer service but they havent gotten back to me yet. |
03-22-2011, 12:12 PM | #2 |
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My impression from the B&N site is that the "lend me" books are lendable one time to one person. This is per their deal with the publishers.
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03-22-2011, 12:13 PM | #3 | |
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These limitations are set by the publishers, not B&N. That is why lending for the Kindle has the same limitations. |
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Source: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook...?cds2Pid=35611 Just like Amazon's policy regarding lending ebooks. Here is some additional information on lending from the Nook user guide (p. 131): Quote:
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03-22-2011, 12:41 PM | #5 |
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That is very limiting and misleading. Lendme technology sucks.
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03-22-2011, 01:47 PM | #7 |
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They might as well do away with it all together. I can see only lending it to a single person once but to only lend it out once ever? Not worth even having as a feature, IMO.
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03-22-2011, 02:44 PM | #8 |
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I totally agree. On the surface it appears to be a great selling point. It's really a joke.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...lending/71821/ |
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03-23-2011, 05:50 AM | #10 |
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Well, if they have/plan all these restrictions for sBooks that most certainly do NOT apply to paper books, then surely the eBooks should be LOTS cheaper than the paper books... One would think... and (unfortunately) be wrong...
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03-23-2011, 04:28 PM | #11 | |
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While I think this sucks compared to other lending options, I've joined booksfornooks and read a lot of books for free using it, so I don't complain too much. I just wish more publishers would participate in the lending program--some pulled out when Kindle started lending. |
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03-23-2011, 11:27 PM | #12 |
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I am still trying to figure out the publishers motivation for having this restriction. With everything with them it comes down to money. Do they actually think that this will bring in more money? Don't answer that. Of course that is what they think! I mean when I buy my kids eReaders we won't even be able to share books among ourselves. How stupid is that?
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The automatic-return feature of e-book lending makes it unlike a lot of paper book lending--in e-book lending at least you know you will get your book back. Theoretically you could lend out your e-book nearly constantly to hundreds of people if there were no restrictions, and yeah, I suppose a publisher would think that would eat into profit. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to share e-books between your kids, though. You could register them to the same account, or sideload them into different readers. |
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