Comments on: Why Amazon’s Lending Library is Not a Threat to Public Libraries

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By: M.Artis

M.Artis — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:35:38 +0000

I’m agreeing with Bobbi Newman. Amazon is offering a wornderful service, but only allowing one checkout per month compared to academic and public libraries circulating checkout policy defintely don’t post a threat. Uterlizing the libraries afford the patrons to checkout up to 5-10 books every two to three weeks.

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:55:29 +0000

[...] I didn’t rush to blog about this, which actually worked out in my favor. Cooler heads prevail. Bobbi Newman of Librarian By Day has this very succinct, reasonable assessment. [...]

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:37:31 +0000

Great response Annie! I wish everyone had this calm, level-headed answer ready, its factual and reassuring without being condescending.

By: Annie Miller

Annie Miller — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:09:54 +0000

Last night, as I was issuing a library card to a new 20-something patron, the Amazon library came up in conversation. An Amazon Prime subscriber, he was concerned about the “immanent death” of the public library. I assured him that we, in our small town, are busier than ever both as an internet hub and old-fashioned book pusher/community center. His new card gave him access to all our resources as well as those held in libraries across the state for a tax levy of less than 1/4 the Amazon price for his entire household. Take that Amazon! I told him not to believe the hype and to spread the word.

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:54:00 +0000

I too own a Kindle and have a Prime account, I’ve had both for over a year. I have 5 pages of books on my wishlist on Amazon that I want to read, none of them are available through the lending library. Even if they were one a month would be no where near enough for me. I would guess I’ve checked out over 10 books on my Kindle from my library since that service became available. Sure I’ll probably use Prime if a book I want is available there & not from the library. But I also still buy books too. I think that’s where people get confused. Library users buy books, book buyers use the library they are not mutually exclusive in fact there are studies that show library users are some of the biggest buyers of books

By: Robert Kinosian

Robert Kinosian — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:59:26 +0000

I agree that Amazon’s new lending library isn’t going to be much of a threat to traditional libraries. I own both a Kindle and an Amazon Prime membership, but even with 5000 titles available I don’t feel like the Amazon offering has anywhere close to the number of books that interest me as my local library.

But the real deal breaker is the fact that Amazon is only allowing one title to be checked out per month. I am one of those “avid readers” that you mentioned, and I usually read 2-3 books a week, so one book per month is never going to be able to replace a regular library for me. However, I *will* probably use the Kindle lending library in a supporting role if there’s a book available that I run into in my normal Amazon browsing.

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:55:37 +0000

You’re welcome! Thank you!

I always wonder what those patrons think will happen to them. I mean they aren’t getting their books from Amazon. Maybe they should be more worried about themselves and a little less about you