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05-10-2012, 02:20 PM
| | |  Harry Potter e-books available for Amazon Kindle Owners' Lending Library from June 19
Amazon announced today that beginning June 19, 2012, the seven-part Harry Potter series would be available in e-book form for the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, exclusive to those with Amazon Prime accounts. The books will be sold in five languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.  All 7 Harry Potter eBooks Coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Read all of J.K. Rowling’s iconic Harry Potter series for free on your Kindle
Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now includes more than 145,000 books, including over 100 current and former New York Times Best Sellers
SEATTLE, May 10, 2012—Owning a Kindle just got a whole lot better for magic-loving Muggles. Starting June 19, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is adding all seven Harry Potter books (in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish) to*the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL). Harry Potter is the all-time best-selling book series in history, and Amazon has purchased an exclusive license from J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore to make the addition of these titles possible. The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is a benefit of Amazon Prime membership—Prime members also enjoy free two-day shipping on millions of items and unlimited streaming of more than 17,000 movies and TV episodes. The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library has now grown to over 145,000 books that can be borrowed for free as frequently as once a month, with no due dates.
“We’re absolutely delighted to have reached this agreement with Pottermore. This is the kind of significant investment in the Kindle ecosystem that we’ll continue to make on behalf of Kindle owners,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “Over a year, borrowing the Harry Potter books, plus a handful of additional titles, can alone be worth more than the $79 cost of Prime or a Kindle. The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library also has an innovative feature that’s of great benefit for popular titles like Harry Potter – unlimited supply of each title – you never get put on a waiting list.”
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now features over 145,000 books to borrow for free, including over 100 current and former New York Times Best Sellers. With traditional library lending, the library buys a certain number of eBook copies of a particular title. If all of those are checked out, readers have to get on a waiting list. For popular titles like Harry Potter, the wait can sometimes be months. With the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, there are no due dates, books can be borrowed as frequently as once a month, and there are no limits on how many people can simultaneously borrow the same title—so readers never have to wait in line for the book they want.
Just as with any other Kindle book, your notes, highlights and bookmarks in borrowed books will be saved, so you’ll have them later if you purchase or re-borrow the book. Books are borrowed from a Kindle device, and customers can have one book out at a time. When customers want to borrow a new book, any borrowed book can easily be returned right from their device. To learn more about the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, visit www.amazon.com/kindleownerslendinglibrary. To learn about all the additional benefits included with Amazon Prime, or to start an Amazon Prime free trial, visit www.amazon.com/kindleprime.
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05-10-2012, 03:30 PM
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| | Chizpurfle
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Oh wow! I thought Pottermore was going to be the only place you could get those because Jo didn't want to have to deal with places like Amazon. But I guess this isn't purchasing books, which is a bit different.
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05-10-2012, 05:06 PM
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fantastic! my younger daughter has just started the series...she has a Kindle Fire...perfect!
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05-10-2012, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by hpluvr037  Oh wow! I thought Pottermore was going to be the only place you could get those because Jo didn't want to have to deal with places like Amazon. But I guess this isn't purchasing books, which is a bit different. That's what I thought as well.
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05-16-2012, 07:20 PM
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I was thinking the same as you guys, but still good news!
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